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Direct linkMary Jane Brundage; David E. Meltzer; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We use a validated conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument focusing on thermodynamic processes and the first and second laws of thermodynamics at the level of introductory physics to investigate the problem-property dependence of introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics problems after traditional…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Science Process Skills, Introductory Courses, Scientific Concepts
C. F. J. Pols; P. J. J. M. Dekkers – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Acknowledgement of the limited learning outcomes in our first-year physics lab course, strikingly similar to the observed and reported issues in literature, incited renewal of the course with a focus on developing students' ability to engage in experimental physics research. The "procedural and conceptual knowledge (PACKS)…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Student Research, Science Process Skills
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
Gayle Geschwind; Michael Vignal; Marcos D. Caballero; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Concepts and practices surrounding measurement uncertainty are vital knowledge for physicists and are often emphasized in undergraduate physics laboratory courses. We have previously developed a research-based assessment instrument--the Survey of Physics Reasoning on Uncertainty Concepts in Experiments (SPRUCE)--to examine student proficiency with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Laboratories, College Science
Paul J. Emigh; Corinne A. Manogue – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Physics experts and students commonly use a variety of representations when working with partial derivatives, including symbols, graphs, and words. One especially powerful representation is the contour graph. In open-ended problem-solving interviews with nine upper-division physics students, we asked students to determine derivatives from contour…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts
Michael E. Robbins; Gabriel J. DiQuattro; Eric W. Burkholder – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research.] One of the greatest weaknesses of physics education research is the paucity of research on graduate education. While there are a growing number of investigations of graduate student degree progress and admissions, there are very few…
Descriptors: Science Education, College Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Wei-Zhao Shi; Chunying Zuo; Jingying Wang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Previous research has shown that in prehigher education stages, inquiry-based teaching is not sufficient for forming a mature understanding of the nature of science (NOS). However, there is relatively little research conducted on colleges. Inquiry-based teaching should not overlook cognitive frameworks, as students' limited scientific reasoning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning, College Science
Buggé, Danielle; Rutberg, Joshua; Ahmed, Sheehan H.; Zisk, Robert; Jammula, Diane – Physics Education, 2023
The Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) approach to learning and teaching holds as one of its core tenets that students should learn physics by engaging in the same processes through which physicists develop new knowledge. One key skill necessary for this is hypothetico-deductive reasoning. In this study, we explored how the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Yan Yang – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2024
Written as a letter to Galileo, an education graduate student narrates from course experiences that deepened her understandings of Galileo and natural and intellectual properties underlying his works. Having taken the Galileo-themed course with Elizabeth Cavicchi at MIT's Edgerton Center in three prior terms, on taking it a fourth time, this…
Descriptors: College Science, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
Christof Keebaugh; Emily Marshman; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
We examine students' challenges in determining the number of distinct many-particle stationary states for a system of noninteracting identical particles, focusing on how these insights guided the design, validation, and evaluation of a quantum interactive learning tutorial (QuILT) to aid students' understanding. Specifically, we focus on systems…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Quantum Mechanics
Meagan Sundstrom; L. N. Simpfendoerfer; Annie Tan; Ashley B. Heim; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Previous work has identified that recognition from others is an important predictor of students' participation, persistence, and career intentions in physics. However, research has also found a gender bias in peer recognition in which student nominations of strong peers in their physics course disproportionately favor men over women. In this…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Recognition (Achievement), Gender Bias, Physics
May, Jason Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undergraduate physics laboratory curriculum has undergone significant modification in recent decades in response to research and recommendations from educational and professional organizations and stakeholders. These reforms address multiple issues, such as 1) lack of student agency in experimentation, 2) an incomplete framework for student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Introductory Courses, Physics
Sulaiman, Nidhal; Werth, Alexandra; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
A large-enrollment, introductory physics laboratory course at the University of Colorado Boulder has undergone a recent transformation to help students' develop lab skills and better align students' views and beliefs about experimental physics with those of expert experimental physicists through engagement with authentic scientific practices. We…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
Geller, Benjamin D.; Tipton, Maya; Daniel-Morales, Brandon; Tignor, Nikhil; White, Calvin; Crouch, Catherine H. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
A central goal of introductory physics for the life sciences (IPLS) is to prepare students to use physics to model and analyze biological situations, a skill of increasing importance for their future studies and careers. Here we report our findings on life science students' ability to carry out a sophisticated biological modeling task at the end…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Science Process Skills, Biological Sciences
Viennot, Laurence; Décamp, Nicolas – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2020
This book promotes the effective implementation and development of critical analysis in physics. It focuses on explanatory texts concerning subjects typically dealt with in secondary or higher education and addressed in an academic or popular context. It highlights the general difficulties and obstacles inherent in teaching physics and shows how…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Skill Development, Physics, Science Process Skills
