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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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Dana, L. M.; Pollard, Benjamin; Mueller, Sara – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Most, if not all, physics undergraduate degree programs include instructional lab experiences. Physics lab instructors, both faculty and staff, are instrumental to student learning in instructional physics labs. However, the faculty-staff dichotomy belies the complex, varied, and multifaceted landscape of positions that lab instructors hold in the…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Physics, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments
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Anna Donhauser; Philipp Bitzenbauer; Linda Qerimi; Stefan Heusler; Stefan Küchemann; Jochen Kuhn; Malte S. Ubben – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The present review intends to show the current state of teaching quantum-related content, to analyze and compare its learning efficiency, and to give a systemized overview of quantum-educational activities in the last years. We focus on teaching and learning elements, their innovative tools, and process-oriented studies that are empirically…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Quantum Mechanics, Comparative Analysis
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Wu, Chao-Jung; Liu, Chia-Yu – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore how students with high- and low-prior-knowledge employed multiple representations in argumentation evaluation and generation tasks. The argumentation performance and eye-movement behaviors of 96 college students in these tasks were investigated. The number of participants who proposed complex argumentation…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Prior Learning, Persuasive Discourse, College Students
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Svensson, Kim; Campos, Esmeralda – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The study of students' use of representations is one of the main topics of physics education research and is guided by the overarching field of semiotics. In this paper we compare two semiotic frameworks, one coming from didactics of mathematics and one from physics education research; "the theory of registers of semiotic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Semiotics, Science Instruction, Physics
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Porter, C. D.; Smith, J. R. H.; Stagar, E. M.; Simmons, A.; Nieberding, M.; Orban, C. M.; Brown, J.; Ayers, A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in using virtual reality (VR) technology to benefit instruction, especially in physics and related subjects. As VR devices improve and become more widely available, there remains a number of unanswered questions regarding the impact of VR on student learning and how best to use this technology in the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Video Games, Computer Simulation