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Editorial: Announcing PRST-PER Focused Collections

Charles Henderson

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010001 (2014) - Published 2 January, 2014

Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research Gender in Physics

Charles Henderson

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010004 (2014) - Published 16 April, 2014

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Introduction of interactive learning into French university physics classrooms

Alexander L. Rudolph, Brahim Lamine, Michael Joyce, Hélène Vignolles, and David Consiglio

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010103 (2014) - Published 27 January, 2014

How substance-based ontologies for gravity can be productive: A case study

Ayush Gupta, Andrew Elby, and Luke D. Conlin

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010113 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Building on the productive aspects of students’ ideas, rather than suppressing the negative aspects, can lead to better learning.

ARTICLES

Partial derivative games in thermodynamics: A cognitive task analysis

Mary Bridget Kustusch, David Roundy, Tevian Dray, and Corinne A. Manogue

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010101 (2014) - Published 10 January, 2014

Development of a student-centered instrument to assess middle school students’ conceptual understanding of sound

Haim Eshach

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010102 (2014) - Published 21 January, 2014

Introduction of interactive learning into French university physics classrooms

Alexander L. Rudolph, Brahim Lamine, Michael Joyce, Hélène Vignolles, and David Consiglio

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010103 (2014) - Published 27 January, 2014

Comparative analysis of female physicists in the physical sciences: Motivation and background variables

Katherine P. Dabney and Robert H. Tai

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010104 (2014) - Published 3 February, 2014

Assessment of teaching effectiveness: Lack of alignment between instructors, institutions, and research recommendations

Charles Henderson, Chandra Turpen, Melissa Dancy, and Tricia Chapman

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010106 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Open-inquiry driven overcoming of epistemological difficulties in engineering undergraduates: A case study in the context of thermal science

Nicola Pizzolato, Claudio Fazio, Rosa Maria Sperandeo Mineo, and Dominique Persano Adorno

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010107 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Physics exam preparation: A comparison of three methods

Witat Fakcharoenphol and Timothy Stelzer

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010108 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Conditions for building a community of practice in an advanced physics laboratory

Paul W. Irving and Eleanor C. Sayre

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010109 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Effectiveness of Tutorials for Introductory Physics in Argentinean high schools

J. Benegas and J. Sirur Flores

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010110 (2014) - Published 24 March, 2014

How to make a good animation: A grounded cognition model of how visual representation design affects the construction of abstract physics knowledge

Zhongzhou Chen and Gary Gladding

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010111 (2014) - Published 3 April, 2014

Towards a theory of animation design that supports student learning of abstract physics concepts.

Correlating student interest and high school preparation with learning and performance in an introductory university physics course

Jason J. B. Harlow, David M. Harrison, and Andrew Meyertholen

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010112 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Students who take introductory university physics because they are interested learn more than students who take the course because it is required.

How substance-based ontologies for gravity can be productive: A case study

Ayush Gupta, Andrew Elby, and Luke D. Conlin

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010113 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Building on the productive aspects of students’ ideas, rather than suppressing the negative aspects, can lead to better learning.

Visualizing changes in pretest and post-test student responses with consistency plots

Michael C. Wittmann and Katrina E. Black

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010114 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Students’ reasoning about “high-energy bonds” and ATP: A vision of interdisciplinary education

Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Vashti Sawtelle, Chandra Turpen, Julia Gouvea, and Edward F. Redish

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010115 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

When teacher-centered instructors are assigned to student-centered classrooms

Nathaniel Lasry, Elizabeth Charles, and Chris Whittaker

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010116 (2014) - Published 21 May, 2014

Student-centered classroom spaces do not improve student learning unless paired with student-centered pedagogy.

Shifting college students’ epistemological framing using hypothetical debate problems

Dehui Hu and N. Sanjay Rebello

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010117 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Using hypothetical debate problems to move students away from plug-and-chug problem-solving.

Extending item response theory to online homework

Gerd Kortemeyer

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010118 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Addressing the challenges of applying item response theory to online homework.

Framing the structural role of mathematics in physics lectures: A case study on electromagnetism

Ricardo Karam

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010119 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

The development of a research tool for analyzing the use of mathematics in physics lectures.

Epistemology and expectations survey about experimental physics: Development and initial results

Benjamin M. Zwickl, Takako Hirokawa, Noah Finkelstein, and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010120 (2014) - Published 2 June, 2014

A survey tool for assessing students’ epistemology in a laboratory courses.

Test of understanding of vectors: A reliable multiple-choice vector concept test

Pablo Barniol and Genaro Zavala

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010121 (2014) - Published 17 June, 2014

Development and testing of the test of understanding of vectors.

Addressing students’ difficulties with Faraday’s law: A guided problem solving approach

Kristina Zuza, José-Manuel Almudí, Ane Leniz, and Jenaro Guisasola

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 010122 (2014) - Published 30 June, 2014

Instructional sequences that integrate macroscopic and microscopic explanations helps students overcome difficulties with Faraday’s law.

SHORT PAPERS

Student reasoning about electrostatic and gravitational potential energy: An exploratory study with interdisciplinary consequences

Beth A. Lindsey

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 10, 013101 (2014) - Published 17 January, 2014

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