Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	97
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	48
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	46
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	43
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	40
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	40
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	35
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	35
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	34
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	33
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	32
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	32
Improving student understanding of the number of distinct many-particle states for a system of identical particles with a fixed number of available single-particle states	30
Using sequential synthesis problems to investigate novice teachers’ conceptions of hydrodynamics	30
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	28
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	27
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	27
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	26
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	26
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	25
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	25
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	22
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	21
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	21
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	20

Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	19
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	19
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	18
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	18
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	18
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	18
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	17
Investigative study on preprint journal club as an effective method of teaching latest knowledge in astronomy	17
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	17
Modeling when and how physics Ph.D. students search for a research group: The role of interests and prior research experiences in timely group integration	17
Characterizations of student, instructor, and textbook discourse related to basis and change of basis in quantum mechanics	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	16
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	16
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	15
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	15
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	15
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	15
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	15
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	15
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	15
Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire	14
Detecting preservice teachers’ visual attention under prediction and nonprediction conditions with eye-tracking technology	14
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Effects of metacognitive scaffolding on students’ performance and confidence judgments in simulation-based inquiry	14
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	14
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	14
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	13
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	13
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	13
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	13
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	12
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	12
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	12
Gender inequity in individual participation within physics and science, technology, engineering, and math courses	11
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	11
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	11
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Students’ context-sensitive use of conceptual resources: A pattern across different styles of question about mechanical waves	11
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	11
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	11
Informal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?	11
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions	11
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	11
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	10
How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	10

Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	10
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	10
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	9
Transforming the preparation of physics graduate teaching assistants: Curriculum development	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	9
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	9
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	9
Preliminary development of a simple statistical tool for estimating mental model states from a diagnostic test	9
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	9
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	7
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	7
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	7
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	7
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	7
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	7
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Factors related to girls’ choice of physics for university entrance exams in Japan	7
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	7
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	7
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	7
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	6
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	6
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	6
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	6
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	6
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	6
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	6
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	6
Transitioning to online instruction: Strong ties and anxiety	6
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	6
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	6
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	6
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	6
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	6
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	6
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	6
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	6
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	6
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	6
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	6
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	6
Students’ difficulties with solving bound and scattering state problems in quantum mechanics	5
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	5
What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography	5
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics using a validated instrument	5
Investigating unprompted and prompted diagrams generated by physics majors during problem solving	5
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of galvanic cell: An interdisciplinary approach connecting physics and chemistry	5
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	5
Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination	5
Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education	5
Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	5
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	5
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	5
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	5
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	5
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	5
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	5
Why and how teachers use nature of science in teaching quantum physics: Research on the use of an ecological teaching intervention in upper secondary schools	5
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	5
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	5
Exploring and supporting student reasoning in physics by leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making	5
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study	5
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	5
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	5
Contribution of self-directed, naked-eye observations to students’ conceptual understanding and attitudes towards astronomy	5

Comparison of two semiotic perspectives: How do students use representations in physics?	5
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	4
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	4
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	4
Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light	4
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	4
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	4
Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race?	4
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	4
Effect of gender, self-efficacy, and interest on perception of the learning environment and outcomes in calculus-based introductory physics courses	4
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	4
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	4
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	4
Importance of accounting for student identities and intersectionality for creating equitable and inclusive physics learning environments	4
Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates	4
Motivations for using the item response theory nominal response model to rank responses to multiple-choice items	4
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	4
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	4
Network analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of mathematical expressions for probability in upper-division quantum mechanics	4
Editorial: Research on Advancing Equity Is Critical for Physics	4
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	4
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	4
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	4
Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	4
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	4
Physics Graduate Record Exam does not help applicants “stand out”	4
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	4
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	4
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	4
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	4
Comment on “How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses”	4
Students’ understanding of two-variable calculus concepts in mathematics and physics contexts. I. The partial derivative and the directional derivative	4
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	4
Persistence, context, and visual strategy of graph understanding: Gaze patterns reveal student difficulties in interpreting graphs	3
Investigating undergraduate students’ views about the process of experimental physics	3
Investigating students’ views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes	3
Investigating the design-science connection in a multiweek engineering design-based introductory physics laboratory task	3
Response-shift bias in student self-efficacy during an actively taught physics course	3
Does confidence in a wrong answer imply a misconception?	3
Method to assess the trustworthiness of machine coding at scale	3
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	3
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	3
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	3
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	3
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	3
Challenges and opportunities for informal physics learning in the COVID era	3
Frequent small group interactions improve student learning gains in physics: Results from a nationally representative pre-post study of four-year colleges	3
Student behavior in undergraduate physics laboratories: Designing experiments	3
Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: A pandemic follow-up	3
Mediating role of personality in the relation of gender to self-efficacy in physics and mathematics	3
Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics	3
How women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer physics doctoral students navigate graduate education: The roles of professional environments and social networks	3
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	3
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	3
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	3
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	3
Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains	3
Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms	3
Cheat sites and artificial intelligence usage in online introductory physics courses: What is the extent and what effect does it have on assessments?	3
Instructor interactions in traditional and nontraditional labs	3
Investigating students’ insight after attending a planetarium presentation about the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	3
Evolution of response time and accuracy on online mastery practice assignments for introductory physics students	3
Role of mentorship, career conceptualization, and leadership in developing women’s physics identity and belonging	3
How to help students learn: An investigation of how in- and pre-service physics teachers respond to students’ explanations	3
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	3
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	3
Role of inhibition in overcoming interferences of misconception under similar feature saliency: An eye-tracking study of the projectile motion problem	3
Erratum: Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 20 , 0	2
Survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments: An assessment of measurement uncertainty for introductory physics labs	2
Should frames of reference be enacted in astronomy instruction?	2
Confirmatory factor analysis of two self-efficacy scales for astronomy understanding and robotic telescope use	2
Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study	2
Integrating argumentation in physics inquiry: A design and evaluation study	2
Evaluating the impact of a classroom simulator training on graduate teaching assistants’ instructional practices and undergraduate student learning	2
Exploring the sequential structure of students’ physics problem-solving approaches using process mining and sequence analysis	2
Teacher learning about the integration of energy and equity: A case study	2
Instructing nontraditional physics labs: Toward responsiveness to student epistemic framing	2
Impactful experiences and their effect on learning assistant epistemological development	2
Validity of Force Concept Inventory evaluated by students’ explanations and confirmation using modified item response curve	2
Comment on “Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics”	2
Comparing students’ learning and development of scientific abilities with apparatus-based versus video-based experimentation	2
Development and validation of the ray optics in converging lenses concept inventory	2
Student conceptual resources for understanding electric circuits	2
Fields in middle school energy instruction to support continued learning of energy	2
Identifying students’ mental models of the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	2
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!	2
Possible misconceptions about solid friction	2
Challenges in sensemaking and reasoning in the context of degenerate perturbation theory in quantum mechanics	2
Development and illustration of a framework for computational thinking practices in introductory physics	2
Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	2
Statistically equivalent models with different causal structures: An example from physics identity	2
Editorial: Discontinuation of short papers in PRPER	2
Teaching strategies predict instructors’ perceptions of their effectiveness in engaging students in introductory physics for life sciences courses	2
Comparing introductory undergraduate physics learning and behavior before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person	2