Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	142
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	90
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	83
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	75
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	74
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	62
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	53
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	53
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	52
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	52
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	37
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	35
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	29
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	29
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	28
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	26
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	25
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	24
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	24
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change	23
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	22
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	21
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	20
Students’ understanding of the 2D heat equation: An action, process, object, schema approach	19
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	19

Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	18
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	18
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	18
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	18
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	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
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	17
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	17
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	17
Qualitative investigation of students’ cross-disciplinary understanding of energy concepts	16
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	16
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	15
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	15
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	15
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	15
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	15
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	15
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	15
Nature of heat inventory: Assessing student understanding of thermal processes in kinetic molecular terms	15
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	14
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	13
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	13
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	13
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world	13
Expert perspectives on the future of quantum physics education at the secondary level	13
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	13
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	12
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	12
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	12
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	12
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	12
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	12
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	12
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	12
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	12
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	12
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	11
Young women’s longitudinal identity negotiations in physics and mathematics throughout upper secondary education	11
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	11
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	11
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	11
Dynamics of collaborative modeling in an ill-structured real-world problem	10
Can large language models correctly interpret equations with errors?	10
Do we have a quantum computer? Expert perspectives on current state and future prospects	10

When AI evaluates its own work: Validating learner-initiated, AI-generated physics practice problems	10
Student sensemaking on electrostatics problems involving the method of images through the lens of epistemic game framework	10
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	10
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	10
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	10
Analyzing problem solving in secondary physics education: A rubric-guided approach to explore individual learning needs	10
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	10
Using representational gesture to enact instants in collaborative problem solving in physics	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	10
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	10
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	10
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	9
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	9
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	9
Overcoming the more measurements, the better intuitive heuristic in physics data evaluation: The role of inhibitory control	9
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	9
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	9
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	9
Graph theoretical methods for understanding student social interactions in physics classrooms	9
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	9
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	8
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	8
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	8
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	8
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Preservice physics teachers’ nonroutine problem-posing process: Metacognitive strategies and beliefs	8
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	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
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	8
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	8
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	8
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	7
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	7
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	7
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	7
High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series	7
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	7
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	7
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	7
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	7
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	7
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	7
Evaluating a department-wide initiative incorporating computational methods into the undergraduate physics curriculum	7
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	7
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	7
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	7
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	7
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	7
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	7
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	7
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	6
How to design research-aligned diversity, equity, and inclusion interventions in physics	6
Analyzing the history of physics education in the USA and Europe through natural language processing	6
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	6
Global blind spot in understanding trigonometric derivatives: A multinational analysis	6
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics using a validated instrument	6
How students can use coherence to reconstruct a partially forgotten equation	6
Impact of outreach on physics student development: Quantitative results from a national survey	6
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	6
Trends and themes of twenty years of physics education research: A bibliometric analysis of PRPER publications	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
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	6
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	6
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of galvanic cell: An interdisciplinary approach connecting physics and chemistry	6
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	6
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	6
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	6

Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	6
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	6
Generative AI for feedback and collaborative knowledge construction in preservice physics teacher education	6
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	6
Comparison of two semiotic perspectives: How do students use representations in physics?	6
What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography	6
Students’ experience of cultural differences between mathematics and physics	6
Importance of accounting for student identities and intersectionality for creating equitable and inclusive physics learning environments	5
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	5
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	5
Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race?	5
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	5
Assessing high school students’ understanding of friction force: A cognitive diagnostic modeling approach	5
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	5
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	5
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	5
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	5
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	5
Descending an inclined plane with a large language model	5
Beyond named methods: A typology of active learning based on classroom observation networks	5
Students’ understanding of two-variable calculus concepts in mathematics and physics contexts. I. The partial derivative and the directional derivative	5
Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates	5
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	5
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	5
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	5
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	5
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	5
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	5
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	5
Students’ metacognition knowledge and skills during physics problem-solving process	5
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	5
Investigation of preservice physics teacher’s conceptual changes using the quantum interactive learning tutorials in Korea	5
Uncovering student conceptual structure by a multimethod evaluation of the energy and momentum conceptual survey	5
Tracking students’ progression in developing understanding of energy using AI technologies	5
Comment on “How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses”	5
Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	5
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	5
Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains	4
Roles of mathematics in physics education: A systematic review	4
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	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
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	4
Response-shift bias in student self-efficacy during an actively taught physics course	4
Advancing clustering methods in physics education research: A case for mixture models	4
Method to assess the trustworthiness of machine coding at scale	4
Investigating the design-science connection in a multiweek engineering design-based introductory physics laboratory task	4
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	4
Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms	4
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	4
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	4
Network analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of mathematical expressions for probability in upper-division quantum mechanics	4
How women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer physics doctoral students navigate graduate education: The roles of professional environments and social networks	4
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	4
How to help students learn: An investigation of how in- and pre-service physics teachers respond to students’ explanations	4
Students’ views of experimental physics after participating in lab courses with open-ended activities	4
Inclusive teaching strategies are not widely used by male physics instructors	4
Role of inhibition in overcoming interferences of misconception under similar feature saliency: An eye-tracking study of the projectile motion problem	4
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	4
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	4
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	4
Investigating undergraduate students’ views about the process of experimental physics	4
Persistence, context, and visual strategy of graph understanding: Gaze patterns reveal student difficulties in interpreting graphs	4
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	4
Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics	4
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	4
Evolution of response time and accuracy on online mastery practice assignments for introductory physics students	4
Variability in student reasoning about radioactive decay as a stochastic process	4
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	4
Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: A pandemic follow-up	3
Using text embeddings for deductive qualitative research at scale in physics education	3
Statistically equivalent models with different causal structures: An example from physics identity	3
Exploring the sequential structure of students’ physics problem-solving approaches using process mining and sequence analysis	3
Student conceptual resources for understanding electric circuits	3
Editorial: Discontinuation of short papers in PRPER	3
Workplace climate forLGBT+physicists: A view from students a	3
Analysis of visual-based physics questions of the senior high school entrance examination in China	3
Inquiry-based experimental physics: Twenty years of an evidence-based, laboratory-based physics course for algebra-based physics students	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
Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person	3
Survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments: An assessment of measurement uncertainty for introductory physics labs	3
Surveying the state of writing education in physics and astronomy	3
Fields in middle school energy instruction to support continued learning of energy	3
Incentivizing supplemental math assignments and using AI-generated hints is associated with improved exam performance	3
Comparing conceptual learning in Zoom and in-class sections of college physics	3
Analyzing interviews on computational thinking for introductory physics students: Toward a generalized assessment	3
Difficulties in diagram interpretation in physics: An eye-tracking study of visual attention and diagram interpretation strategies	3
Self-select groups increase stability but reduce collaboration in high school physics	3
Studying physics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Student perceptions on synchronous and asynchronous course formats and implications for the future	3
Examining equity and graduation rates at two institutions using a course deficit model and the collaborative learning through active sense-making in physics curriculum	3
Written instruction that significantly promotes science learning	3
Teacher learning about the integration of energy and equity: A case study	3
Comparing introductory undergraduate physics learning and behavior before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Exploring the role of human-AI collaboration in solving scientific problems	3
Promoting knowledge integration in work and mechanical energy through conceptual framework and cooperative learning instruction	3
Challenges in sensemaking and reasoning in the context of degenerate perturbation theory in quantum mechanics	3