Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	117
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	64
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	63
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	61
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	57
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	48
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	44
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	43
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	42
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	40
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	38
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	38
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	37
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	33
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	33
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	31
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	30
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	28
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
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	26
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	26
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	25
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	22
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	22
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	21

Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	21
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	20
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	19
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	19
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	19
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	18
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	18
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	18
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	18
Using drawing to study student research experiences	17
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	17
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	17
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	17
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	16
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	16
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	16
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	15
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	15
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	15
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	15
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	15
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	14
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	14
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	13
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	13
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	13
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	13
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	12
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	12
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	12
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	12
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	12
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	12
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	12
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	11
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	11
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	11
Gender inequity in individual participation within physics and science, technology, engineering, and math courses	11
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	10
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Detecting preservice teachers’ visual attention under prediction and nonprediction conditions with eye-tracking technology	10
Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions	10
Informal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	9
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	9
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	9
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	9

How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	9
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	9
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	9
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	9
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	9
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	9
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	9
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	9
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	9
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	8
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	8
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	8
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	8
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	8
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	7
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	7
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	7
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	7
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	7
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	7
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	7
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	7
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	7
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	7
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	7
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	7
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	6
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	6
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	6
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	6
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	6
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	6
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	6
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	6
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	6
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	6
Investigating unprompted and prompted diagrams generated by physics majors during problem solving	6
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	6
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	6
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	6
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	6
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	6
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	6
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	6
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	6
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	6
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	6
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	6
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	6
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	6
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	6
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	6
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	6
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	6
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	5
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	5
Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	5
Students’ understanding of two-variable calculus concepts in mathematics and physics contexts. I. The partial derivative and the directional derivative	5
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	5
Students’ metacognition knowledge and skills during physics problem-solving process	5
Students’ difficulties with solving bound and scattering state problems in quantum mechanics	5
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study	5
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	5
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	5
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	5
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	5
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	5

Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	5
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	5
What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography	5
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	5
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of galvanic cell: An interdisciplinary approach connecting physics and chemistry	5
Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	5
Exploring and supporting student reasoning in physics by leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making	5
Tracking students’ progression in developing understanding of energy using AI technologies	5
Motivations for using the item response theory nominal response model to rank responses to multiple-choice items	5
Descending an inclined plane with a large language model	5
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	5
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	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
Comparison of two semiotic perspectives: How do students use representations in physics?	5
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics using a validated instrument	5
Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms	4
Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains	4
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	4
Comment on “How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses”	4
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	4
Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates	4
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	4
Editorial: Research on Advancing Equity Is Critical for Physics	4
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	4
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	4
Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race?	4
Persistence, context, and visual strategy of graph understanding: Gaze patterns reveal student difficulties in interpreting graphs	4
Investigating students’ views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes	4
Network analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of mathematical expressions for probability in upper-division quantum mechanics	4
Roles of mathematics in physics education: A systematic review	4
Assessing high school students’ understanding of friction force: A cognitive diagnostic modeling approach	4
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	4
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	4
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	4
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	4
Importance of accounting for student identities and intersectionality for creating equitable and inclusive physics learning environments	4
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	4
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	4
Response-shift bias in student self-efficacy during an actively taught physics course	4
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	4
Cheat sites and artificial intelligence usage in online introductory physics courses: What is the extent and what effect does it have on assessments?	4
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	4
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	4
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	4
Role of inhibition in overcoming interferences of misconception under similar feature saliency: An eye-tracking study of the projectile motion problem	4
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	4
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	4
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	4
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	4
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	4
Investigating undergraduate students’ views about the process of experimental physics	4
Grading assistance for a handwritten thermodynamics exam using artificial intelligence: An exploratory study	3
Investigating students’ insight after attending a planetarium presentation about the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	3
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!	3
Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: A pandemic follow-up	3
Instructor interactions in traditional and nontraditional labs	3
Inclusive teaching strategies are not widely used by male physics instructors	3
Frequent small group interactions improve student learning gains in physics: Results from a nationally representative pre-post study of four-year colleges	3
How to help students learn: An investigation of how in- and pre-service physics teachers respond to students’ explanations	3
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	3
Mediating role of personality in the relation of gender to self-efficacy in physics and mathematics	3
Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person	3
Does confidence in a wrong answer imply a misconception?	3
Role of mentorship, career conceptualization, and leadership in developing women’s physics identity and belonging	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	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
Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics	3
Advancing clustering methods in physics education research: A case for mixture models	3
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	3
Examining the effects of lab instruction and gender composition on intergroup interaction networks in introductory physics labs	3
Impactful experiences and their effect on learning assistant epistemological development	3
Students’ conceptual understanding of electric flux and magnetic circulation	3
Using text embeddings for deductive qualitative research at scale in physics education	3
Self-select groups increase stability but reduce collaboration in high school physics	3
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	3
Evolution of response time and accuracy on online mastery practice assignments for introductory physics students	3
Method to assess the trustworthiness of machine coding at scale	3
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	3
Investigating the design-science connection in a multiweek engineering design-based introductory physics laboratory task	3
Instructing nontraditional physics labs: Toward responsiveness to student epistemic framing	3