Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Studying physics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Student assessments of learning achievement, perceived effectiveness of online recitations, and online laboratories	82
Demographics of physics education research	68
Damage caused by women’s lower self-efficacy on physics learning	56
Preparing for the quantum revolution: What is the role of higher education?	45
Associations between learning assistants, passing introductory physics, and equity: A quantitative critical race theory investigation	35
Effect of gender, self-efficacy, and interest on perception of the learning environment and outcomes in calculus-based introductory physics courses	32
Investigating the landscape of physics laboratory instruction across North America	29
Group roles in unstructured labs show inequitable gender divide	29
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	29
Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years	24
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	22
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of momentum	21
Investigating society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in student attitudes about physics using quantitative critical race theory	21
Exploring the structure of misconceptions in the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation with modified module analysis	21
Students’ sense of belonging in introductory physics course for bioscience majors predicts their grade	20
Effect of culture on women physicists’ career choice: A comparison of Muslim majority countries and the West	20
Implementing an epistemologically authentic approach to student-centered inquiry learning	20
Impact of a course transformation on students’ reasoning about measurement uncertainty	19
Effect of integrating physics education technology simulations on students’ conceptual understanding in physics: A review of literature	19
Epistemology, socialization, help seeking, and gender-based views in in-person and online, hands-on undergraduate physics laboratories	19
Students’ understanding of non-inertial frames of reference	19
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	19
Grades, grade component weighting, and demographic disparities in introductory physics	18
Critical race and feminist standpoint theories in physics education research: A historical review and potential applications	18
How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	18

Students’ understanding of the concept of the electric field through conversions of multiple representations	17
Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review	17
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	17
Eye tracking in physics education research: A systematic literature review	17
Framework of goals for writing in physics lab classes	17
Community of practice approach for understanding identity development within informal physics programs	16
Design-based research as a model for systematic curriculum development: The example of a curriculum for introductory optics	16
Effect of an introductory quantum physics course using experiments with heralded photons on preuniversity students’ conceptions about quantum physics	16
Eye-movement study of high- and low-prior-knowledge students’ scientific argumentations with multiple representations	16
Assessing mathematical sensemaking in physics through calculation-concept crossover	16
Thematic analysis of 18 years of physics education research conference proceedings using natural language processing	16
Social networks and academic performance in physics: Undergraduate cooperation enhances ill-structured problem elaboration and inhibits well-structured problem solving	16
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	16
How expectations of confirmation influence students’ experimentation decisions in introductory labs	15
Teaching electric circuits with a focus on potential differences	14
Classification of open-ended responses to a research-based assessment using natural language processing	14
Network positions in active learning environments in physics	14
Programming and its affordances for physics education: A social semiotic and variation theory approach to learning physics	14
Template for teaching and assessment of problem solving in introductory physics	14
Holistic framework to help students learn effectively from research-validated self-paced learning tools	13
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	13
Using machine learning to identify the most at-risk students in physics classes	13
Gendered motivations and aspirations of university physics students in Finland	13
Analyzing admissions metrics as predictors of graduate GPA and whether graduate GPA mediates Ph.D. completion	13
Mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics	12
Using virtual reality in electrostatics instruction: The impact of training	12
Test of understanding graphs in kinematics: Item objectives confirmed by clustering eye movement transitions	12
Characterizing active learning environments in physics using network analysis and classroom observations	12
Categorical framework for mathematical sense making in physics	12
Importance of math prerequisites for performance in introductory physics	12
Physics teacher isolation, contextual characteristics, and student performance	12
Student recognition of interference and diffraction patterns: An eye-tracking study	12
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	12
Gendered performance differences in introductory physics: A study from a large land-grant university	12
Development of a two-tier instrument on simple electric circuits	12
Skills-focused lab instruction improves critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students	11
Knowledge integration in student learning of Newton’s third law: Addressing the action-reaction language and the implied causality	11
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study	11
Brazilian physicists community diversity, equity, and inclusion: A first diagnostic	11
Development and validation of a conceptual survey instrument to evaluate students’ understanding of thermodynamics	11
Communities of practice as a curriculum design theory in an introductory physics class for engineers	11
Student knowledge integration in learning mechanical wave propagation	11
Extending modified module analysis to include correct responses: Analysis of the Force Concept Inventory	11
Remote advanced lab course: A case study analysis of open-ended projects	11
Learning assistant approaches to teaching computational physics problems in a problem-based learning course	11
Examination of quantitative methods for analyzing data from concept inventories	11
Optimizing the length of computerized adaptive testing for the Force Concept Inventory	11
LGBT+ physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven suppo	10
Effect of students’ investigative experiments on students’ recognition of interference and diffraction patterns: An eye-tracking study	10
Students’ use and perception of textbooks and online resources in introductory physics	10

Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition	10
Concept of a transductive link	10
Sequential and simultaneous synthesis problem solving: A comparison of students’ gaze transitions	10
Transitioning to online instruction: Strong ties and anxiety	10
Framework for evaluating statistical models in physics education research	10
Disabling barriers experienced by students with disabilities in postsecondary introductory physics	10
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	10
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	10
Not engaging with problems in the lab: Students’ navigation of conflicting data and models	10
Evaluating the role of student preference in physics lab group equity	10
Introductory physics lab instructors’ perspectives on measurement uncertainty	10
Relationship between students’ online learning behavior and course performance: What contextual information matters?	10
Insights from the Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop: How do new physics faculty teach?	9
Impact of broad categorization on statistical results: How underrepresented minority designation can mask the struggles of both Asian American and African American students	9
Impact of informal physics programs on university student development: Creating a physicist	9
Undergraduate student experiences in remote lab courses during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Research-based quantum instruction: Paradigms and Tutorials	9
Guiding students towards an understanding of the electromotive force concept in electromagnetic phenomena through a teaching-learning sequence	9
Incorporating writing in advanced lab projects: A multiple case-study analysis	9
Designing research-based instructional materials that leverage dual-process theories of reasoning: Insights from testing one specific, theory-driven intervention	9
Professional development combining cognitive apprenticeship and expectancy-value theories improves lab teaching assistants’ instructional views and practices	9
Framework for the natures of negativity in introductory physics	9
Identifying physics misconceptions at the circus: The case of circular motion	9
Difficulties in understanding mechanical waves: Remediated by problem-based instruction	9
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	9
Examining the effects of lab instruction and gender composition on intergroup interaction networks in introductory physics labs	9
Student epistemological framing on paper-based assessments	9
Informal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?	9
Educational supports and career goals of five women in a graduate astronomy program	9
Interactive learning tutorial on quantum key distribution	9
Examining the relation of correct knowledge and misconceptions using the nominal response model	9
Social positioning in small group interactions in an investigative science learning environment physics class	8
Sketching to support visual learning with interactive tutorials	8
Evaluating instructional labs’ use of deliberate practice to teach critical thinking skills	8
Impact of virtual research experience for undergraduates experiences on students’ psychosocial gains during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Effects of instruction on students’ overconfidence in introductory quantum mechanics	8
Dynamic conceptual blending analysis to model student reasoning processes while integrating mathematics and physics: A case study in the context of the heat equation	8
Firsthand or secondhand data in school labs: It does not make a difference	8
Intersectional analysis of Advanced Placement Physics participation and performance by gender and ethnicity	8
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	8
Active learning reduces academic risk of students with nonformal reasoning skills: Evidence from an introductory physics massive course in a Chilean public university	8
Animation and interactivity in computer-based physics experiments to support the documentation of measured vector quantities in diagrams: An eye tracking study	8
Improving test security and efficiency of computerized adaptive testing for the Force Concept Inventory	8
Development of a construct map to describe students’ reasoning about introductory quantum mechanics	7
First results from the Dark Skies, Bright Kids astronomy club draw-a-scientist test	7
Examining the dynamics of decision making when designing curriculum in partnership with students: How should we proceed?	7
Testing students ability to use derivatives, integrals, and vectors in a purely mathematical context and in a physical context	7
Beyond teaching methods: Highlighting physics faculty’s strengths and agency	7
Applying module analysis to the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism	7
Comparison of labatorials and traditional labs: The impacts of instructional scaffolding on the student experience and conceptual understanding	7
Secondary school students’ misunderstandings of potential wells and tunneling	7
Isolation and connectedness among Black and Latinx physics graduate students	7
Exploring the effects of omitted variable bias in physics education research	7
Refining a model for understanding and characterizing instructor pedagogy in informal physics learning environments	7
Fostering appropriation through designing for multiple access points to a multidimensional understanding of physics	7
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	7
Inclusive learning environments can improve student learning and motivational beliefs	7
Challenges and opportunities for informal physics learning in the COVID era	7
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Designing and implementing materials on quantum computing for secondary school students: The case of teleportation	7
Possible misconceptions about solid friction	7
Phenomenographic analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic interactions	6
Framework for unpacking students’ mindsets in physics by gender	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	6
Investigating how university students collaborate to compose physics problems through structured tasks	6
Development and validation of the moon phases concept inventory for middle school	6
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	6
Exploring and supporting student reasoning in physics by leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making	6
Future quantum workforce: Competences, requirements, and forecasts	6
Validity of Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for a high-achieving, Finnish population	6
Effects of metacognitive scaffolding on students’ performance and confidence judgments in simulation-based inquiry	6
Students’ metarepresentational competence with matrix notation and Dirac notation in quantum mechanics	6
Gender differences in classroom experiences impacting self-efficacy in an AP Physics 1 classroom	6
Equitable approach to introductory calculus-based physics courses focused on problem solving	6
Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	6
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of simple electric circuits	6
Evidence of measurement invariance across gender for the Force Concept Inventory	6
Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light	6
Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education	5
Today’s interdisciplinary quantum information classroom: Themes from a survey of quantum information science instructors	5

Designing upper-division thermal physics assessment items informed by faculty perspectives of key content coverage	5
Maintaining item banks with the Rasch model: An example from wave optics	5
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	5
University student conceptual resources for understanding forces	5
Positive attitudinal shifts and a narrowing gender gap: Do expertlike attitudes correlate to higher learning gains for women in the physics classroom?	5
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	5
Multidimensional item response theory and the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	5
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	5
Shifting the learning gears: Redesigning a project-based course on soft matter through the perspective of constructionism	5
Investigating students’ views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes	5
Physics Graduate Record Exam does not help applicants “stand out”	5
Retrieval practice of a hierarchical principle structure in university introductory physics: Making stronger students	5
Increasing the effectiveness of active learning using deliberate practice: A homework transformation	5
Reasoning with evidence while modeling: Successes at the middle school level	5
Deeper look at question categories, concepts, and context covered: Modified module analysis of quantum mechanics concept assessment	5
Student behavior in undergraduate physics laboratories: Designing experiments	5
Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire	5
How the introduction of self-assessment rubrics helped students and teachers in a project laboratory course	5
Instructor perspectives on the emergency transition to remote instruction of physics labs	5
Assessing the longitudinal measurement invariance of the Force Concept Inventory and the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism	5
Can ChatGPT support prospective teachers in physics task development?	5
Improving accuracy in measuring the impact of online instruction on students’ ability to transfer physics problem-solving skills	5
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	4
Graduate teaching assistants’ views of broken-into-parts physics problems: Preference for guidance overshadows development of self-reliance in problem solving	4
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	4
Investigating institutional influence on graduate program admissions by modeling physics Graduate Record Examination cutoff scores	4
Disciplinary significance of social caring in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics	4
Gender differences in students’ self-efficacy in introductory physics courses in which women outnumber men predict their grade	4
Characterizations of student, instructor, and textbook discourse related to basis and change of basis in quantum mechanics	4
Development and validation of the ray optics in converging lenses concept inventory	4
German university students’ views of nature of science in the introductory phase	4
Initial findings of the Physics Teacher Education Program Analysis rubric: What do thriving programs do?	4
Productive faculty resources activated by curricular materials: An example of epistemological beliefs in University Modeling Instruction	4
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: From tragedy to more progressive policies and an evolving culture	4
Students’ views about experimental physics in a large-enrollment introductory lab focused on experimental scientific practices	4
Patterns in assignment submission times: Procrastination, gender, grades, and grade components	4
Causal reasoning in understanding Newton’s third law	4
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	4
Students’ use of symbolic forms when constructing equations of boundary conditions	4
How women physics teacher candidates utilize their double outsider identities to productively learn physics	4
Evaluating the impact of a classroom simulator training on graduate teaching assistants’ instructional practices and undergraduate student learning	4
Applying a mathematical sense-making framework to student work and its potential for curriculum design	4
Validation of a coupled, multiple response assessment for upper-division thermal physics	4
Integrating artificial intelligence-based methods into qualitative research in physics education research: A case for computational grounded theory	4
Learning assistants as student partners in introductory physics	4
Longitudinal analysis of women and men’s motivational beliefs in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence for students on the bioscience track	4
Assessing student engagement with teamwork in an online, large-enrollment course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	4
Development and validation of an astronomy self-efficacy instrument for understanding and doing	4
Developing the Physics Teacher Education Program Analysis rubric: Measuring features of thriving programs	4
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	4
Theoretical model and quantitative assessment of scientific thinking and reasoning	4
Students’ difficulties with partial differential equations in quantum mechanics	4
Long-term collaboration with strong friendship ties improves academic performance in remote and hybrid teaching modalities in high school physics	4
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	4
Development of a multiple-choice problem-solving categorization test for assessment of student knowledge structure	4
Workplace climate forLGBT+physicists: A view from students a	4
Mediating role of personality in the relation of gender to self-efficacy in physics and mathematics	4
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	4
Relative impacts of different grade scales on student success in introductory physics	3
Improving high school physics outcomes for young women	3
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	3
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	3
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	3
Scientists suggest insertion of nanoscience and technology into middle school physics	3
Validated diagnostic test for introductory physics course placement	3
Validity of Force Concept Inventory evaluated by students’ explanations and confirmation using modified item response curve	3
Students’ context-sensitive use of conceptual resources: A pattern across different styles of question about mechanical waves	3
Context interactions and physics faculty’s professional development: Case study	3
Frequent small group interactions improve student learning gains in physics: Results from a nationally representative pre-post study of four-year colleges	3
Transforming the preparation of physics graduate teaching assistants: Curriculum development	3
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	3
Rubric for assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems	3
Participatory approach to introduce computational modeling at the undergraduate level, extending existing curricula and practices: Augmenting derivations	3
Exploring student ideas on change of basis in quantum mechanics	3
Towards a research program in designing and evaluating teaching materials: An example from dc resistive circuits in introductory physics	3
Views from students and professors in a nonmajor introductory physics course: What is interdisciplinarity?	3
Preliminary development of a simple statistical tool for estimating mental model states from a diagnostic test	3
Measuring the level of homework answer copying during COVID-19 induced remote instruction	3
Assessing the impact of metacognitive postreflection exercises on problem-solving skillfulness	3
Instructor interactions in traditional and nontraditional labs	3
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	3
Rubric-based holistic review: A promising route to equitable graduate admissions in physics	3
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	3
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	3
Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	3
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	3
Values affirmation replication at the University of Illinois	3
Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study	3
Motivations for using the item response theory nominal response model to rank responses to multiple-choice items	3
Motivating preservice physics teachers to low-socioeconomic status schools	3
Impact of an active learning physics workshop on secondary school students’ self-efficacy and ability	3
Intuition in quantum mechanics: Student perspectives and expectations	3
Policy recommendations from causal inference in physics education research	3
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	3
Characterizing the mathematical problem-solving strategies of transitioning novice physics students	3