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Christof Keebaugh; Emily Marshman; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We discuss how research on student difficulties was used as a guide to develop, validate, and evaluate a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) to help students learn how to determine the completely symmetric bosonic or completely antisymmetric fermionic wave function and be able to compare and contrast them from the case when the particles…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Quantum Mechanics
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Florian Budimaier; Martin Hopf – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Although there has been extensive research on students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter (PNM), there is still a lack of research on contexts that can be used to teach this challenging topic. In a previous design-based research study, the authors developed a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on the PNM in the context of crystal…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Science Instruction
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John Hansen; Amanda Nemeth; John Stewart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Curricular analytics (CA) is a quantitative method that analyzes the sequence of courses (curriculum) that students in an undergraduate academic program must complete to fulfill the requirements of the program. The main hypothesis of CA is that the less complex a curriculum is, the more likely it is that students complete the program. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Speirs, J. Caleb; Leuteritz, Robyn; Lê, Thanh K.; Deng, Rose; Ell, Shawn W. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Even after research-based instruction, students who demonstrate the ability to assemble relevant conceptual knowledge on one physics question may have difficulty assembling that same knowledge on a closely related problem. Recent research has suggested that reflexive, bottom-up reasoning processes seemingly unrelated to the physics concepts…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Yangqiuting Li; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Research-based multiple-choice questions implemented in class with peer instruction have been shown to be an effective tool for improving students' engagement and learning outcomes. Moreover, multiple-choice questions that are carefully sequenced to build on each other can be particularly helpful for students to develop a systematic understanding…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
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Dahlkemper, Merten Nikolay; Lahme, Simon Zacharias; Klein, Pascal – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study aimed at evaluating how students perceive the linguistic quality and scientific accuracy of ChatGPT responses to physics comprehension questions. A total of 102 first- and second-year physics students were confronted with three questions of progressing difficulty from introductory mechanics (rolling motion, waves, and fluid dynamics).…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
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Eaton, Philip; Johnson, Keith; Barrett, Frank; Willoughby, Shannon – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
For proper assessment selection understanding the statistical similarities amongst assessments that measure the same, or very similar, topics is imperative. This study seeks to extend the comparative analysis between the brief electricity and magnetism assessment (BEMA) and the conceptual survey of electricity and magnetism (CSEM) presented by…
Descriptors: Test Theory, Item Response Theory, Comparative Analysis, Energy
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McColgan, Michele W.; Finn, Rose A.; Broder, Darren L.; Hassel, George E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
We present the Electricity and Magnetism Conceptual Assessment (EMCA), a new assessment aligned with second-semester introductory physics courses. Topics covered include electrostatics, electric fields, circuits, magnetism, and induction. We have two motives for writing a new assessment. First, we find other assessments such as the Brief…
Descriptors: Energy, Magnets, Scientific Concepts, Student Evaluation