Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	111
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	59
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	51
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	49
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	43
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	42
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	42
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	38
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	36
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	35
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	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	31
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	31
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	29
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	28
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	27
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	27
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	27
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	26
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	25
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	23
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	23
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	22
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	20

Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	20
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	20
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	19
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	19
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	19
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	18
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	18
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	18
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	17
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	17
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	17
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	17
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	17
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	16
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	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 impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	15
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	15
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	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
Effects of metacognitive scaffolding on students’ performance and confidence judgments in simulation-based inquiry	14
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	14
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	14
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	13
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	13
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	13
Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire	13
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	13
Inventory of Galilean transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	12
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	12
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	12
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	12
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	12
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	11
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	11
Gender inequity in individual participation within physics and science, technology, engineering, and math courses	11
Informal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?	11
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	11
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	10
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions	10
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	10
Detecting preservice teachers’ visual attention under prediction and nonprediction conditions with eye-tracking technology	10

Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	10
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	9
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	9
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	9
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	9
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	9
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Transforming the preparation of physics graduate teaching assistants: Curriculum development	9
How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	9
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	9
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	8
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	8
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	8
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	8
Preliminary development of a simple statistical tool for estimating mental model states from a diagnostic test	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	7
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	7
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	7
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	7
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	7
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	7
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	7
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	7
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	7
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	7
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	7
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	7
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	6
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	6
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	6
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	6
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	6
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	6
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	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
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	6
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	6
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	6
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	6
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	6
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	6
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	6
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	6
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	6
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	6
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	6
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	6
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
Investigating unprompted and prompted diagrams generated by physics majors during problem solving	5
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	5
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	5
Students’ metacognition knowledge and skills during physics problem solving process	5
What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography	5
Exploring and supporting student reasoning in physics by leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making	5
Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	5
Comparison of two semiotic perspectives: How do students use representations in physics?	5
Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination	5
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study	5
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	5
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	5
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	5
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	5
Students’ difficulties with solving bound and scattering state problems in quantum mechanics	5
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	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
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of galvanic cell: An interdisciplinary approach connecting physics and chemistry	5
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	5
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	5
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	5
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics using a validated instrument	5
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	4
Importance of accounting for student identities and intersectionality for creating equitable and inclusive physics learning environments	4
Comment on “How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses”	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
Tracking students’ progression in developing understanding of energy using AI technologies	4
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	4
Editorial: Research on Advancing Equity Is Critical for Physics	4
Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains	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
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	4
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	4
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	4
Students’ understanding of two-variable calculus concepts in mathematics and physics contexts. I. The partial derivative and the directional derivative	4
Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates	4
Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race?	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
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	4
Role of inhibition in overcoming interferences of misconception under similar feature saliency: An eye-tracking study of the projectile motion problem	4
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	4
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	4
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	4
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	4
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	4
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	4
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	4
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	4
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	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
Roles of mathematics in physics education: A systematic review	4
Descending an inclined plane with a large language model	4
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	4
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	4
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	4
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	4
Network analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of mathematical expressions for probability in upper-division quantum mechanics	4
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	4
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	4
Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	4
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	4
Investigating students’ insight after attending a planetarium presentation about the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	3
Grading assistance for a handwritten thermodynamics exam using artificial intelligence: An exploratory study	3
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	3
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!	3
Examining the effects of lab instruction and gender composition on intergroup interaction networks in introductory physics labs	3
Method to assess the trustworthiness of machine coding at scale	3
Using text embeddings for deductive qualitative research at scale in physics education	3
Response-shift bias in student self-efficacy during an actively taught physics course	3
Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics	3
Student behavior in undergraduate physics laboratories: Designing experiments	3
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	3
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	3
Mediating role of personality in the relation of gender to self-efficacy in physics and mathematics	3
Does confidence in a wrong answer imply a misconception?	3
Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person	3
Students’ conceptual understanding of electric flux and magnetic circulation	3
Instructing nontraditional physics labs: Toward responsiveness to student epistemic framing	3
Evolution of response time and accuracy on online mastery practice assignments for introductory physics students	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
Instructor interactions in traditional and nontraditional labs	3
Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms	3
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	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
Role of mentorship, career conceptualization, and leadership in developing women’s physics identity and belonging	3
Self-select groups increase stability but reduce collaboration in high school physics	3
Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: A pandemic follow-up	3
Inclusive teaching strategies are not widely used by male physics instructors	3
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	3
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	3
Investigating the design-science connection in a multiweek engineering design-based introductory physics laboratory task	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
Utilizing network analysis to explore student qualitative inferential reasoning chains	2
Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	2
Prevalence of a growth mindset among introductory astronomy students	2
Comment on “Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics”	2
Development and illustration of a framework for computational thinking practices in introductory physics	2
Evaluating GPT and reasoning-based large language models on physics Olympiad problems: Surpassing human performance and implications for educational assessment	2
Confirmatory factor analysis of two self-efficacy scales for astronomy understanding and robotic telescope use	2
Comparing students’ learning and development of scientific abilities with apparatus-based versus video-based experimentation	2
Using the Energy and Momentum Conceptual Survey to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	2
Editorial: Focused Collection: Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	2
Advancements in astronomy education research: Two decades of progress with undergraduate and adult learners	2
Integrating argumentation in physics inquiry: A design and evaluation study	2
Electromagnetic field presented in introductory physics textbooks and consequences for its teaching	2
Improving undergraduate astronomy students’ skills with research literature via accessible summaries: An exploratory case study with Astrobites-based reading assignments	2