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Supporting teachers who introduce curricular innovations into their classrooms: A problem-solving perspective Author(s): Edit Yerushalmi and Bat-Sheva EylonWhen classroom teachers introduce curricular innovations that conflict with their former deeply rooted practices, the teachers themselves experience a pro …Teaching assistants’ beliefs regarding example solutions in introductory physics Author(s): Shih-Yin Lin, Charles Henderson, William Mamudi, Chandralekha Singh, and Edit YerushalmiAs part of a larger study to understand instructors’ considerations regarding the learning and teachi …Reappraising the relationships between physics students’ mental models and predictions: An example of heat convection Author(s): Guo-Li ChiouAlthough prediction is claimed to be a prime function of mental models, to what extent students can run their mental models to make predictions of physical phenomena remains unc …Relativity concept inventory: Development, analysis, and results Author(s): J. S. Aslanides and C. M. SavageWe report on a concept inventory for special relativity: the development process, data analysis methods, and results from an introductory relativity class. T …Students’ epistemological beliefs, expectations, and learning physics: An international comparison Author(s): Sapna Sharma, P. K. Ahluwalia, and S. K. SharmaIt has been established by physics education researchers that there is a correlation between the learner’s behavior, their epistemological bel …Introducing Taiwanese undergraduate students to the nature of science through Nobel Prize stories Author(s): Haim Eshach, Fu-Kwun Hwang, Hsin-Kai Wu, and Ying-Shao HsuAlthough there is a broad agreement among scientists and science educators that students should not only learn science, but also ac …Exploring the context of change: Understanding the kinetics of a studio physics implementation effort Author(s): Patrick J. Enderle, Sherry A. Southerland, and Jonathon A. GroomsThe SCALE-UP studio physics class involves the physical redesign of a classroom to encourage more collaborative interactions …Female physicist doctoral experiences Author(s): Katherine P. Dabney and Robert H. TaiThe underrepresentation of women in physics doctorate programs and in tenured academic positions indicates a need to evaluate what may influence their c …Education majors’ expectations and reported experiences with inquiry-based physics: Implications for student affect Author(s): Jon D. H. GaffneyTo address a perennial need to provide K-8 teachers with a solid foundation in science, there are many physics content courses throughout the United States. One such course …Validating two questions in the Force Concept Inventory with subquestions Author(s): Jun-ichiro Yasuda and Masa-aki TaniguchiIn this study, we evaluate the structural validity of Q.16 and Q.7 in the Force Concept Inventory (FCI). We address whether respondents who answer Q. …Transitions in students’ epistemic framing along two axes Author(s): Paul W. Irving, Mathew Sandy Martinuk, and Eleanor C. SayreWe use epistemological framing to interpret participants’ behavior during group problem-solving sessions in an intermediate mechan …Large-scale survey of Chinese precollege students’ epistemological beliefs about physics: A progression or a regression? Author(s): Ping Zhang and Lin DingThis paper reports a cross-grade comparative study of Chinese precollege students’ epistemological beliefs about physics by using the Colorado Learning Attitudes Surv …Variation of instructor-student interactions in an introductory interactive physics course Author(s): Emily A. West, Cassandra A. Paul, David Webb, and Wendell H. PotterThe physics instruction at UC Davis for life science majors takes place in a long-standing reformed large-enrollment physi …Epistemic game for answer making in learning about hydrostatics Author(s): Ying Chen, Paul W. Irving, and Eleanor C. SayrePrevious research into problem solving in physics resulted in researchers introducing six epistemic games to describe the organizational struc …Student difficulties measuring distances in terms of wavelength: Lack of basic skills or failure to transfer? Author(s): Mila Kryjevskaia, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, and Paula R. L. HeronIn a previous paper that focused on the transmission of periodic waves at the boundary between two media, we documented difficul …Categorization of first-year university students’ interpretations of numerical linear distance-time graphs Author(s): Thomas Wemyss and Paul van KampenWe have investigated the various approaches taken by first-year university students (n≈550) when asked to determine the direction of motion, the constancy o …Problem-solving rubrics revisited: Attending to the blending of informal conceptual and formal mathematical reasoning Author(s): Michael M. Hull, Eric Kuo, Ayush Gupta, and Andrew ElbyMuch research in engineering and physics education has focused on improving students’ problem-solving skills. This research has led to …Does using a visual-representation tool foster students’ ability to identify forces and construct free-body diagrams? Author(s): Antti Savinainen, Asko Mäkynen, Pasi Nieminen, and Jouni ViiriEarlier research has shown that after physics instruction, many students have difficulties with the force concept, and with con …New approach to analyzing physics problems: A Taxonomy of Introductory Physics Problems Author(s): Raluca E. Teodorescu, Cornelius Bennhold, Gerald Feldman, and Larry MedskerThis paper describes research on a classification of physics problems in the context of introductory physics cours …Improving student understanding of addition of angular momentum in quantum mechanics Author(s): Guangtian Zhu and Chandralekha SinghWe describe the difficulties advanced undergraduate and graduate students have with concepts related to addition of angular momentum in quantum mechanics …Preservice teachers’ objectives and their experience of practical work Author(s): V. Nivalainen, M. A. Asikainen, and P. E. HirvonenThis study explores third-year preservice physics teachers’ (n=32) views concerning the objectives of practical work at school and universi …Announcement: PRST-PER Editors’ Suggestions Author(s): [Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 9, 010001] Published Wed Jan 02, 2013Visualization of longitudinal student data Author(s): Anthony J. Bendinelli and M. MarderWe use visualization to find patterns in educational data. We represent student scores from high-stakes exams as flow vectors in fluids, define two types …What do seniors remember from freshman physics? Author(s): Andrew Pawl, Analia Barrantes, David E. Pritchard, and Rudolph MitchellWe have given a group of 56 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seniors who took mechanics as freshmen a writt …Representation use and strategy choice in physics problem solving Author(s): Mieke De CockIn this paper, we examine student success on three variants of a test item given in different representational formats (verbal, pictorial, and graphical), with an isomorphic pr …Rigging the deck: Selecting good problems for expert-novice card-sorting experiments Author(s): Steven F. Wolf, Daniel P. Dougherty, and Gerd KortemeyerA seminal study by Chi et al. firmly established the paradigm that novices categorize physics problems by “surface features” (e.g., “ …Representing energy. I. Representing a substance ontology for energy Author(s): Rachel E. Scherr, Hunter G. Close, Sarah B. McKagan, and Stamatis VokosThe nature of energy is not typically an explicit topic of physics instruction. Nonetheless, verbal and graphical repr …Representing energy. II. Energy tracking representations Author(s): Rachel E. Scherr, Hunter G. Close, Eleanor W. Close, and Stamatis VokosThe Energy Project at Seattle Pacific University has developed representations that embody the substance metaphor and …Development and implications of technology in reform-based physics laboratories Author(s): Sufen Chen, Hao-Chang Lo, Jing-Wen Lin, Jyh-Chong Liang, Hsin-Yi Chang, Fu-Kwun Hwang, Guo-Li Chiou, Ying-Tien Wu, Silvia Wen-Yu Lee, Hsin-Kai Wu, Chia-Yu Wang, and Chin-Chung TsaiTechnolog …Using cluster analysis to identify patterns in students’ responses to contextually different conceptual problems Author(s): John Stewart, Mayo Miller, Christine Audo, and Gay StewartThis study examined the evolution of student responses to seven contextually different versions of two Force Concept Inventory ques …