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Direct linkD. K. Keblbeck; K. Piatek-Jimenez; C. Medina Medina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Historically, physics has been a predominantly male field, with previous literature showing that there is little diversity among U.S. physics students at the undergraduate and graduate levels or among physicists within the work force. Recent research indicates that the lack of diversity in physics is partially due to an unwelcoming climate within…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Majors (Students), Disproportionate Representation
MacKenzie Lenz; Jessica Payton; Ramón Barthelemy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
In 2017, the University of Utah experienced a tragedy that accelerated already proposed changes to the physics and astronomy graduate program. This article outlines the changes made to the graduate program and discusses students' experiences with the early implementation of the new policies. In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Educational Change, Physics, Astronomy
Briley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Justin A. Gutzwa; Ramón S. Barthelemy; Camila Amaral; Madison Swirtz; Adrienne Traxler; Charles Henderson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Despite knowing physics and astronomy doctoral programs are laden with identity-based inequities, they continue to push minoritized students to the margins. This qualitative social network analysis of 100 women and/or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBT+) physics and astronomy Ph.D.'s explores how minoritized physics and…
Descriptors: Females, LGBTQ People, Minority Group Students, Doctoral Students
Rachel Freed; David McKinnon; Saeed Salimpour; Michael Fitzgerald; Dan Reichart; Christina Norris – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
In this paper, we present the results of an investigation into the effects of engaging with robotic telescopes during an Astronomy 101 (Astro101) course in the United States and Canada on the self-efficacy of students. Using an astronomy self-efficacy survey that measures both astronomy personal self-efficacy and instrumental self-efficacy, the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Gender Differences, Physics, Science Instruction
Saeed Salimpour; Michael Fitzgerald; Robert Hollow – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Over the years, there have been various calls to increase and better represent astronomy in curricula. This is motivated by views within the astronomy and astronomy education communities that the awe, wonder, and interdisciplinary nature of astronomy has the potential to engage students in STEM across disciplines. Reviews of curricula have shown…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Physics, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
Exploring Student Estimates of Astronomical Scales: Impact of Question Formulation and Visualization
Willem Keppens; Mieke De Cock; Hans Van Winckel; Wim Van Dooren; Jan Sermeus – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Estimating astronomical scales requires multiple complex mental processes, such as spatial thinking and interpreting large numbers. As such, it is a nontrivial question how these estimates can be most efficiently assessed. There is reason to believe that results from previous studies probing astronomical scale estimates are possibly susceptible to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Physics, Comparative Analysis
Eom, Heungjin; Shim, Hyunjin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The aim of this research study was to explore learning, i.e., changes in the knowledge structures of three in-service science teachers for the subject of active galaxies, through group activity conducted as part of a teacher training program. Qualitative methods were used in this study consisting of creating visual representations of the teachers'…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Lisabeth M. Santana; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This research focuses on the experiences of six undergraduate white women who are physics and astronomy majors. Specifically we conducted semistructured, empathetic interviews that reveal how uncomfortable physics environments inside and outside of the classroom, which were often propagated by male instructors and peers, excluded undergraduate…
Descriptors: Physics, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students, Females
Izadi, Dena; Willison, Julia; Finkelstein, Noah; Fracchiolla, Claudia; Hinko, Kathleen – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Informal physics programs bring physicists together with youth and adults from local communities to engage with physics content outside of classroom settings. These public engagement or "physics outreach" programs are a significant endeavor of the physics community; however, we lack a systemic documentation of these efforts, which makes…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Equal Education, Inclusion
Rollinde, Emmanuel; Decamp, Nicolas; Derniaux, Catherine – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The experiment that we present in this paper explores the teaching of Galilean motion principles observed in different reference frames, in an astronomical context. All grade 10 students in a French high school (the lycée Condorcet, Val de Marne) participated in two successive teaching-learning sessions, designed within the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Astronomy, Science Instruction, Learning Processes
Langendorf, Ronja; Schneider, Susanne; Klein, Pascal – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) is a fundamental representation in stellar physics. It contains information about key properties of stars and allows inferences about stellar evolution. The use of the HRD is an important disciplinary activity in astrophysics. For example, it is particularly important to have a graphical understanding of the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Visual Aids, Benchmarking
French, Rica Sirbaugh; Prather, Edward E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] Our investigation of 353 faculty-produced multiple-choice Think-Pair-Share questions leads to key insights into faculty members' ideas about the discipline representations and intellectual tasks that could engage learners on key topics in physics and…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Teacher Developed Materials, Active Learning, Astronomy
Barthelemy, Ramón S.; McCormick, Melinda; Henderson, Charles R.; Knaub, Alexis – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The topic of women in graduate education has been central to many calls for action in increasing diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The field of physics has been particularly resistant to change in the significant overrepresentation of men, while also being similar to the field of astronomy which has a…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Astronomy, Cooperative Learning
Barthelemy, Ramón; Lenz, MacKenzie; Knaub, Alexis; Gerton, Jordan; Sandick, Pearl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In 2017 the University of Utah experienced a tragedy which catalyzed already active changes in the department. In the aftermath, admissions to the graduate program was paused while new policies were developed and implemented. This article outlines this change process through the perspectives and accounts of those involved. Through in-depth…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Change, State Universities
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