Charles Henderson and Michael Thoennessen
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010001 (2022) - Published 11 April, 2022
Ramón S. Barthelemy, Madison Swirtz, Savannah Garmon, Elizabeth H. Simmons, Kyle Reeves, Michael L. Falk, Wouter Deconinck, Elena A. Long, and Timothy J. Atherton
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010124 (2022) - Published 28 March, 2022
LGBT+ members of the physics community who have negative perceptions of workplace climate and who observe exclusionary behavior are more likely to consider leaving the discipline.
Sonja Cwik and Chandralekha Singh
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010138 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022
Women in introductory physics are less likely than men to think that others perceive them as being a physics person.
Sonja Cwik and Chandralekha Singh
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010139 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022
In introductory physics courses where men outnumber women, mens’ sense of belonging increases while womens’ does not.
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Micah K. Campbell, and Benjamin M. Zwickl
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010101 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022
Remote research experience for undergraduates programs should be considered as a means to expand access to research experiences for students.
N. G. Holmes, Grace Heath, Katelynn Hubenig, Sophia Jeon, Z. Yasemin Kalender, Emily Stump, and Eleanor C. Sayre
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010106 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022
Inequities in student lab group experiences are due to structural aspects of the learning environment; instructors must institute policies and practices to push against gender norms and stereotypes.
Todd Haskell, Emily Borda, and Andrew Boudreaux
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010108 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022
The development and validation of techniques to measure cross-disciplinary learning: an example in the context of energy.
Spencer Dunleavy, Greg Kestin, Kristina Callaghan, Logan McCarty, and Louis Deslauriers
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010110 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022
Carefully designed one-minute videos and short text summaries following a lecture can significantly increase students’ understanding of the material and their ability to organize the material into useful mental frameworks.
Cole Walsh, H. J. Lewandowski, and N. G. Holmes
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010128 (2022) - Published 11 April, 2022
Labs focused on skills improve critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students compared with labs focused on reinforcing lecture concepts.
Hans Bekaert, Hans Van Winckel, Wim Van Dooren, An Steegen, and Mieke De Cock
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010130 (2022) - Published 20 April, 2022
There are five different mental models that students use to reason about the apparent motion of the Sun and stars.
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Micah K. Campbell, and Benjamin M. Zwickl
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010101 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022
Remote research experience for undergraduates programs should be considered as a means to expand access to research experiences for students.
Meagan Sundstrom, David G. Wu, Cole Walsh, Ashley B. Heim, and N. G. Holmes
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010102 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022
In introductory physics labs, direct prompts from the lab instructor to interact with other groups leads to more and longer interactions.
Karolina Matejak Cvenic, Maja Planinic, Ana Susac, Lana Ivanjek, Katarina Jelicic, and Martin Hopf
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010103 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022
The conceptual survey on wave optics is a valid and reliable 26-item multiple-choice instrument suitable for use as a post-test for high school students.
Michael Vignal and Bethany R. Wilcox
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010104 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022
On some types of problems many students can select the correct answer without drawing a diagram; on other types of problems many student who drew diagrams were unable to select the correct answer.
Drew J. Rosen and Angela M. Kelly
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010105 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022
Students in remote undergraduate physics labs form weak communities of practice with one another, and their instructors exist outside of this community structure.
N. G. Holmes, Grace Heath, Katelynn Hubenig, Sophia Jeon, Z. Yasemin Kalender, Emily Stump, and Eleanor C. Sayre
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010106 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022
Inequities in student lab group experiences are due to structural aspects of the learning environment; instructors must institute policies and practices to push against gender norms and stereotypes.
Zahra Hazari, Remy Dou, Gerhard Sonnert, and Philip M. Sadler
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010107 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022
Informal learning experiences in physics reinforce stereotypical practices, fail to intersect in positive ways with the biological sciences, and continue to be less accessible to students from historically marginalized groups.
Todd Haskell, Emily Borda, and Andrew Boudreaux
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010108 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022
The development and validation of techniques to measure cross-disciplinary learning: an example in the context of energy.
Aaron Reinhard, Alex Felleson, Paula C. Turner, and Maxwell Green
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010109 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022
The efficacy of metacognitive reflections on recently completed work to improve retention of newly learned problem-solving techniques may be highly context dependent.
Spencer Dunleavy, Greg Kestin, Kristina Callaghan, Logan McCarty, and Louis Deslauriers
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010110 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022
Carefully designed one-minute videos and short text summaries following a lecture can significantly increase students’ understanding of the material and their ability to organize the material into useful mental frameworks.
C. F. J. Pols, P. J. J. M. Dekkers, and M. J. de Vries
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010111 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022
An approach to assessing the presence and application of inquiry knowledge required for engaging in physics based on an observation of actions and decisions.
Jun-ichiro Yasuda, Michael M. Hull, and Naohiro Mae
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010112 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022
The accuracy and precision of the full-length Force Concept Inventory can be achieved with fewer items via computerized adaptive testing.
Kelley Commeford, Eric Brewe, and Adrienne Traxler
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010113 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022
Characterizing active learning environments at fine grained level allows for an understanding of the distinguishing characteristics of pedagogies in physics.
Rachel E. Harrington, Job H. J. Thijssen, and Judy Hardy
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010114 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022
Institutional contexts are different and to support equitable practices and outcomes each institution collects and make decisions based on appropriate data about the academic performance and experience of their students.
Lei Bao, Kathleen Koenig, Yang Xiao, Joseph Fritchman, Shaona Zhou, and Cheng Chen
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010115 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022
A new instrument to assess scientific reasoning built from a modeling framework that integrates research in scientific and causal reasoning.
Z. Yasemin Kalender, Emily Marshman, Christian D. Schunn, Timothy J. Nokes-Malach, and Chandralekha Singh
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010116 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022
Female physics students are more likely than male physics students to believe that innate talent is needed to excel in physics, and that they may not have that talent.
Rachel Freed, David McKinnon, Michael Fitzgerald, and Christina M. Norris
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010117 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022
It is important to development domain-specific self-efficacy instruments as a way to assess and improve instruction with an example from astronomy.
Amy D. Robertson and W. Tali Hairston
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010119 (2022) - Published 11 March, 2022
Whiteness shapes many practices in physics classrooms that are often thought to be neutral.
Benjamin D. Geller, Jack Rubien, Sara M. Hiebert, and Catherine H. Crouch
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010120 (2022) - Published 11 March, 2022
Biology majors who take the introductory physics for life sciences course are more likely to reason quantitatively and mechanistically about diffusive phenomena and to successfully coordinate between multiple representations of diffusive processes.
David G. Wu, Ashley B. Heim, Meagan Sundstrom, Cole Walsh, and N. G. Holmes
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010121 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022
The amount of interaction between instructors and students during lab is more a product of the instructional design than an individual instructor’s implementation of that design.
Sara Satanassi, Elisa Ercolessi, and Olivia Levrini
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010122 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022
Designing an inclusive and productive learning environment for the teaching of quantum computing in secondary schools.
Alexander Volfson, Haim Eshach, and Yuval Ben-Abu
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010123 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022
An instructional technique that makes use of whole class discussions based on the history of science.
Ramón S. Barthelemy, Madison Swirtz, Savannah Garmon, Elizabeth H. Simmons, Kyle Reeves, Michael L. Falk, Wouter Deconinck, Elena A. Long, and Timothy J. Atherton
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010124 (2022) - Published 28 March, 2022
LGBT+ members of the physics community who have negative perceptions of workplace climate and who observe exclusionary behavior are more likely to consider leaving the discipline.
Gabriel Murillo-Gonzalez and Eric W. Burkholder
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010125 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022
Solving back-of-the-envelope problems does not require different skills than solving other kinds of problems that physicists encounter in their research.
Zhongzhou Chen
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010126 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022
Most students do not engage in answer copying behaviors to complete online homework assignments in introductory calculus-based physics.
Juan Velasco, Laura Buteler, Carlos Briozzo, and Enrique Coleoni
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010127 (2022) - Published 7 April, 2022
Using coordination class theory to observe learning at both the individual and the group level.
Cole Walsh, H. J. Lewandowski, and N. G. Holmes
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010128 (2022) - Published 11 April, 2022
Labs focused on skills improve critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students compared with labs focused on reinforcing lecture concepts.
Alexandra Werth, Colin G. West, and H. J. Lewandowski
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010129 (2022) - Published 13 April, 2022
Implementation and assessment of a large-scale, introductory, online physics course-based undergraduate research experience.
Hans Bekaert, Hans Van Winckel, Wim Van Dooren, An Steegen, and Mieke De Cock
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010130 (2022) - Published 20 April, 2022
There are five different mental models that students use to reason about the apparent motion of the Sun and stars.
Benjamin D. Geller, Maya Tipton, Brandon Daniel-Morales, Nikhil Tignor, Calvin White, and Catherine H. Crouch
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010131 (2022) - Published 20 April, 2022
Introductory physics for the life sciences students are more successfully than students in a typical physics course at combining multiple ideas to solve problems in new contexts.
Julian S. Martins and William E. Lindsay
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010132 (2022) - Published 25 April, 2022
Developing an attitudes and beliefs survey structure for K-12 physics courses aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
Trevor I. Smith and Nasrine Bendjilali
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010133 (2022) - Published 25 April, 2022
New insights on multiple-choice assessments based on similarities between the item response theory nominal response model and the probability function of the canonical ensemble with degenerate energy states.
Qiuye Li, Shaorui Xu, Yilin Chen, Chuting Lu, and Shaona Zhou
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010134 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022
In an eye-tracking study, preservice teachers who correctly predicted student responses paid attention to different areas than those teachers who did not correctly predict student responses.
E. Teichmann, H. J. Lewandowski, and M. Alemani
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010135 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022
A German language version of the E-CLASS instrument is available for understanding students views of experimental physics.
Vegard Gjerde, Vegard Havre Paulsen, Bodil Holst, and Stein Dankert Kolstø
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010136 (2022) - Published 2 May, 2022
Retrieval practice of physics principles and their conditions of application before self-explanation can have a positive effect on posttest problem-solving scores and can increase the quality of students’ self-explanations.
David Perl-Nussbaum and Edit Yerushalmi
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010137 (2022) - Published 25 May, 2022
Investigating high school student perceptions of the value of different inquiry practices in a learning progression and interpreting these finding using the lens of boundary crossing.
Sonja Cwik and Chandralekha Singh
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010138 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022
Women in introductory physics are less likely than men to think that others perceive them as being a physics person.
Sonja Cwik and Chandralekha Singh
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010139 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022
In introductory physics courses where men outnumber women, mens’ sense of belonging increases while womens’ does not.
Stella Teddy Kanyesigye, Jean Uwamahoro, and Imelda Kemeza
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010140 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022
Implementation of problem based learning in secondary schools in Western Uganda improves student understanding of mechanical waves.
Joseph Wilson, Benjamin Pollard, John M. Aiken, Marcos D. Caballero, and H. J. Lewandowski
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010141 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022
A natural language processing model can be trained to categorize open-ended responses to the physics measurement questionnaire as well as a pair of human coders.
Yangqiuting Li and Chandralekha Singh
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010142 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022
The current learning environment in traditionally taught introductory physics courses does not improve students’ physics motivational beliefs, and initial gender differences in these beliefs becomes larger.
Rachel Henderson, Dona Hewagallage, Jake Follmer, Lynnette Michaluk, Jessica Deshler, Edgar Fuller, and John Stewart
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010143 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022
A substantial amount of the often-reported differences in self-efficacy between men and women may result from gender differences in the tendency to experience anxiety and the tendency to conscientiously complete tasks.
Giaco Corsiglia, Benjamin P. Schermerhorn, Homeyra Sadaghiani, Armando Villaseñor, Steven Pollock, and Gina Passante
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010144 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022
Quantum mechanics students grapple with basis and change of basis in a variety of ways.
Benjamin P. Schermerhorn, Giaco Corsiglia, Homeyra Sadaghiani, Gina Passante, and Steven Pollock
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010145 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022
The iteratively designed tutorial effectively helps students make sense of and carry out a change of basis in quantum mechanics by drawing an analogy between quantum state vectors and 2D Cartesian vectors.
Javier Pulgar, Diego Ramírez, Abigail Umanzor, Cristian Candia, and Iván Sánchez
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010146 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022
Strong peer-to-peer collaborations in a physics class require time to develop and can result in higher grades.
Ramón S. Barthelemy, Bryce E. Hughes, Madison Swirtz, Matthew Mikota, and Timothy J. Atherton
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010147 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022
Actively cultivating an LGBT-inclusive work environment may have a more profound impact on retaining LGBT physicists than only removing exclusive behaviors and practices.
Greg Kestin and Kelly Miller
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010148 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022
Instructonal physics videos are most effective when they include enhanced visuals and embedded questions.
Dona Hewagallage, Elaine Christman, and John Stewart
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010149 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022
Gender differences observed in pretest and post-test scores were changed little by controlling for either high school preparation or noncognitive factors.
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock, and Bethany R. Wilcox
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 010150 (2022) - Published 30 June, 2022
There is not a canonical approach to introduction to quantum information science courses.
Miguel Rodriguez, Ramón Barthelemy, and Melinda McCormick
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 013101 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022
A review and critique of critical race theory and feminist standpoint theory while providing guidance for using these theories in physics education research.
L. Hahn and P. Klein
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 18, 013102 (2022) - Published 2 March, 2022
The use of eye tracking in physics education research is growing rapidly and has led to insights into students’ learning processes.