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Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions

Geoff Potvin, Zahra Hazari, Raina Khatri, Hemeng Cheng, T. Blake Head, Robynne M. Lock, Anne F. Kornahrens, Kathryne Sparks Woodle, Rebecca E. Vieyra, Beth A. Cunningham, Laird Kramer, and Theodore Hodapp

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010126 (2023) - Published 7 April, 2023

Quantitative evidence is presented that counter the normative cultural ones as to who does physics and why one does physics, helps to support women and minoritized groups in envisioning a future for themselves in physics.

Intuition in quantum mechanics: Student perspectives and expectations

Giaco Corsiglia, Steven Pollock, and Gina Passante

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010109 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

The majority of students enter quantum mechanics expecting the subject to be nonintuitive or less intuitive than other courses.

Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs

Victoria Borish and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010117 (2023) - Published 3 March, 2023

Single-photon experiments are used to teach quantum phenomena in a wide variety of ways and with a wide variety of learning goals.

Future quantum workforce: Competences, requirements, and forecasts

Franziska Greinert, Rainer Müller, Philipp Bitzenbauer, Malte S. Ubben, and Kim-Alessandro Weber

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010137 (2023) - Published 5 June, 2023

A survey of experts to map requirements and forecasts for the future quantum workforce.

How women physics teacher candidates utilize their double outsider identities to productively learn physics

Johanna Larsson and Anna T. Danielsson

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010140 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

It is important for women physics teacher candidates to have the option to participate in physics without needing to adopt physics norms associated with nerdiness.

ARTICLES

Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes

Teemu Hynninen, Henna Pesonen, Olli Lintu, and Petriina Paturi

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010101 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

In person introductory physics courses provide sufficient support to allow most low-performing students to pass, while remote learning during COVID did not.

Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: From tragedy to more progressive policies and an evolving culture

Ramón Barthelemy, MacKenzie Lenz, Alexis Knaub, Jordan Gerton, and Pearl Sandick

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010102 (2023) - Published 9 January, 2023

Policy changes can make a difference in the lives of graduate students, and help mitigate potential negative experiences, but may not address all challenges and issues within a department’s culture.

Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws

Esmeralda Campos, Eder Hernandez, Pablo Barniol, and Genaro Zavala

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010103 (2023) - Published 24 January, 2023

In introductory physics, problem solving with Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws should start with their full integral or differential form rather than with a simplified version.

Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics

Tao Tu, Chuan-Feng Li, Jin-Shi Xu, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010104 (2023) - Published 1 February, 2023

Undergraduate quantum mechanics students make a variety of errors when attempting to use delta functions to solve problems.

How instructors can view knowledge to implement culturally relevant pedagogy

Clausell Mathis, Abigail R. Daane, Brandon Rodriguez, Jessica Hernandez, and Tra Huynh

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010105 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Physics instructors’ conceptions of knowledge can be entangled with their enactment of culturally relevant pedagogy; improving instructor conceptions might be one route to increase the use of culturally relevant instruction.

Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: A pandemic follow-up

Nathan Crossette, Lincoln D. Carr, and Bethany R. Wilcox

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010106 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

The context and environment in which a course is situated play more important roles in fostering a correlation between student collaboration and course performance than whether the course format is virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development

Emily M. Stump, Matthew Dew, Sophia Jeon, and N. G. Holmes

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010107 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Undergraduate physics instructors should structure group work in such a way as to support women in taking on leadership roles.

Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law

J. Caleb Speirs, Robyn Leuteritz, Thanh K. Lê, Rose Deng, and Shawn W. Ell

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010108 (2023) - Published 14 February, 2023

Instructional approaches should seek to improve explicit reflective reasoning processes as well as implicit reflexive processes.

Intuition in quantum mechanics: Student perspectives and expectations

Giaco Corsiglia, Steven Pollock, and Gina Passante

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010109 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

The majority of students enter quantum mechanics expecting the subject to be nonintuitive or less intuitive than other courses.

Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics

Maxwell Franklin, Eric Brewe, and Annette R. Ponnock

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010110 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Women who join physics because of the community are less likely to remain in physics after finishing their undergraduate studies.

Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains

Vincent P. Coletta

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010111 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Class normalized gains over the population of courses is consistent with a normal distribution.

Inhibitory control involvement in overcoming the position-velocity indiscrimination misconception among college physics majors

Jiabei Lin, Yuting Xing, Yudi Hu, Jian Zhang, Lei Bao, Kaiqing Luo, Keke Yu, and Yang Xiao

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010112 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Experimental evidence in support of models of conceptual change advocating the coexistence of alternative conceptions, where initial misconceptions are surpassed by rather than entirely supplanted by scientific conceptions.

Investigating learning assistants’ use of questioning in online courses about introductory physics

Jianlan Wang, Yuanhua Wang, Kyle Wipfli, Beth Thacker, and Stephanie Hart

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010113 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Two new instruments to assess learning assistants’ pedagogical content knowledge related to questioning in the context of introductory physics.

Development and validation of a conceptual survey instrument to evaluate senior high school students’ understanding of electrostatics

Shuaishuai Mi, Jianqiang Ye, Yan Li, and Hualin Bi

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010114 (2023) - Published 28 February, 2023

The development and validation of a conceptual survey to assess introductory physics students’ understanding of electrostatics.

Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study

Amy D. Robertson, Verónica Vélez, W. Tali Hairston, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010115 (2023) - Published 1 March, 2023

Race consciousness encourages physicists to become aware of the ways in which white supremacy shapes physics culture and imagine how to make physics a more equitable discipline.

Students’ views about experimental physics in a large-enrollment introductory lab focused on experimental scientific practices

Nidhal Sulaiman, Alexandra Werth, and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010116 (2023) - Published 2 March, 2023

Students can have different lab experiences depending on their identity; this should be accounted for when designing instruction.

Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs

Victoria Borish and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010117 (2023) - Published 3 March, 2023

Single-photon experiments are used to teach quantum phenomena in a wide variety of ways and with a wide variety of learning goals.

Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving

Amogh Sirnoorkar, Paul D. O. Bergeron, and James T. Laverty

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010118 (2023) - Published 8 March, 2023

An examination of the interplay between modeling and sensemaking in the solving of physics problems.

Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression

Zachary Richards and Angela M. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010119 (2023) - Published 22 March, 2023

Enrolling in a community college astronomy course has the potential to make STEM fields accessible to students who might not otherwise have this aspiration or opportunity.

Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity

Silvia Galano, Antonella Liccardo, Anna Lisa Amodeo, Marianna Crispino, Oreste Tarallo, and Italo Testa

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010120 (2023) - Published 22 March, 2023

It is important to focus on girls’ own perception of competency and responsibility in addition to focusing on sense of belonging and recognition.

Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class

A. M. Phillips, E. J. Gouvea, B. E. Gravel, P.-H. Beachemin, and T. J. Atherton

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010121 (2023) - Published 30 March, 2023

Introduction and use of an expanded model of computational physics practices to design and evaluate a computational physics course.

Fields in middle school energy instruction to support continued learning of energy

Kristin Fiedler, Marcus Kubsch, Knut Neumann, and Jeffrey Nordine

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010122 (2023) - Published 30 March, 2023

Use of fields in middle school physics instruction can support students’ understanding of energy.

Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention

Zachary Felker and Zhongzhou Chen

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010123 (2023) - Published 30 March, 2023

A planning prompt can improve student studying behavior on specific upcoming assignments, but does not change their studying habits for future assignments.

Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics

Kristin A. Oliver, Alexandra Werth, and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010124 (2023) - Published 30 March, 2023

Students felt engaged in authentic research within a large enrollment, online laboratory course environment.

Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course

Gary White, Tiffany-Rose Sikorski, Justin Landay, and Maryam Ahmed

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010125 (2023) - Published 7 April, 2023

Limiting case analysis likely plays a pivotal role in the development of adaptive physics expertise.

Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions

Geoff Potvin, Zahra Hazari, Raina Khatri, Hemeng Cheng, T. Blake Head, Robynne M. Lock, Anne F. Kornahrens, Kathryne Sparks Woodle, Rebecca E. Vieyra, Beth A. Cunningham, Laird Kramer, and Theodore Hodapp

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010126 (2023) - Published 7 April, 2023

Quantitative evidence is presented that counter the normative cultural ones as to who does physics and why one does physics, helps to support women and minoritized groups in envisioning a future for themselves in physics.

Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy

Dazhen Tong, Jia Liu, Yechao Sun, Qiaoyi Liu, Xiangqun Zhang, Sudong Pan, and Lei Bao

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010127 (2023) - Published 13 April, 2023

Introductory physics instruction related to mechanical energy should place more emphasis on teaching the central idea and connect it to different contexts, problems, and other concepts.

Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding

Beth A. Lindsey, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, J. Caleb Speirs, William N. Ferm, Jr., and Alexander van Hulten

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010128 (2023) - Published 20 April, 2023

Introductory physics students are capable of following the solution to a qualitative problem using step-by-step reasoning, even for tasks for which they are not likely to generate the correct reasoning on their own.

Evolution of grades and social comparison concern within an introductory physics course

Srividya Suresh and Andrew F. Heckler

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010129 (2023) - Published 25 April, 2023

It may be possible to leverage student concern about ability or performance compared to others in order to improve success in introductory physics courses.

Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance

Muxin Zhang, Jason Morphew, and Tim Stelzer

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010130 (2023) - Published 27 April, 2023

A mock exam before the actual exam impacts students’ intentions for studying but not their actual study behaviors, nor does it facilitate metacognition.

Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person

Fatema Al-Salmani, Jordan Johnson, and Beth Thacker

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010131 (2023) - Published 4 May, 2023

It may be possible to create online introductory physics courses that develop student thinking skills as well as in person courses.

Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?

Gerd Kortemeyer

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010132 (2023) - Published 11 May, 2023

ChatGPT could narrowly pass a standard lecture-based introductory physics course series.

Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change

R. G. Tobin, Sara J. Lacy, and Sally Crissman

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010133 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

Students who appear to have learned some concepts may revert to preinstruction, common sense understanding of these concepts when presented with them in certain situations.

Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics

Nicholas T. Young, N. Verboncoeur, Dao Chi Lam, and Marcos D. Caballero

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010134 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

Rubric-based holistic review is a method that could make the graduate admissions process in physics more equitable.

Challenges and outcomes in remote undergraduate research programs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dina Zohrabi Alaee and Benjamin M. Zwickl

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010135 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

Online undergraduate research programs may be a way to expand access to undergraduate research experiences.

Teacher learning about the integration of energy and equity: A case study

Amy D. Robertson, Trà Huỳnh, Clausell Mathis, Lauren C. Bauman, and Rachel E. Scherr

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010136 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

This paper explores how professional development using a multicultural education framework can help physics teachers to better integrate physics concepts and equity.

Future quantum workforce: Competences, requirements, and forecasts

Franziska Greinert, Rainer Müller, Philipp Bitzenbauer, Malte S. Ubben, and Kim-Alessandro Weber

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010137 (2023) - Published 5 June, 2023

A survey of experts to map requirements and forecasts for the future quantum workforce.

Development and validation of an instrument to assess students’ science, technology, engineering, and mathematics identity

Sijia Liu, Shaorui Xu, Qiuye Li, Hua Xiao, and Shaona Zhou

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010138 (2023) - Published 5 June, 2023

The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics identity instrument is a valid and reliable tool to assess four aspects of the identity in middle and high school students.

Quantifying grade benefits of study: Practice makes better

W. K. Black, Rebecca L. Matz, Mark Mills, and A. E. Evrard

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010139 (2023) - Published 7 June, 2023

Encouraging students to do at least one practice problem a day puts them above the median study habit and can benefit students by up to three quarters of a letter grade.

How women physics teacher candidates utilize their double outsider identities to productively learn physics

Johanna Larsson and Anna T. Danielsson

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010140 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

It is important for women physics teacher candidates to have the option to participate in physics without needing to adopt physics norms associated with nerdiness.

Speech analysis under a Bakhtinian approach: Contributions to research on physics education

Fernanda Ostermann, Cláudio J. de H. Cavalcanti, Matheus M. Nascimento, and Nathan W. Lima

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010141 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

A Bakhtinian approach is used to demonstrate another way to analyze discourse studies in physics education research.

How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT

Merten Nikolay Dahlkemper, Simon Zacharias Lahme, and Pascal Klein

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 010142 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

When their prior knowledge is sufficient, students can evaluate the scientific quality of ChatGPT responses and sample solutions to qualitative physics problems.

SHORT PAPERS

Online test administration results in students selecting more responses to multiple-choice-multiple-response items

Alexis Olsho, Trevor I. Smith, Philip Eaton, Charlotte Zimmerman, Andrew Boudreaux, and Suzanne White Brahmia

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 013101 (2023) - Published 2 February, 2023

Online and paper administration methods of multiple-choice-multiple-response test items provide different pictures of student reasoning.

Students’ conceptual understanding of electric flux and magnetic circulation

Eder Hernandez, Esmeralda Campos, Pablo Barniol, and Genaro Zavala

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 013102 (2023) - Published 25 April, 2023

The concept of magnetic circulation is more challenging for students than that of electric flux.

Comparing introductory undergraduate physics learning and behavior before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Amanda Nemeth, Christopher Wheatley, and John Stewart

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 19, 013103 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Student achievement, attendance rates, and assignment completion rates were similar before and after the pandemic.

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