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	87
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	51
Effect of gender, self-efficacy, and interest on perception of the learning environment and outcomes in calculus-based introductory physics courses	39
Effect of integrating physics education technology simulations on students’ conceptual understanding in physics: A review of literature	35
Investigating the landscape of physics laboratory instruction across North America	31
Students’ sense of belonging in introductory physics course for bioscience majors predicts their grade	28
Effect of culture on women physicists’ career choice: A comparison of Muslim majority countries and the West	27
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	27
Investigating society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in student attitudes about physics using quantitative critical race theory	27
Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years	27
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	25
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	25
Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review	25
Impact of a course transformation on students’ reasoning about measurement uncertainty	24
How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	23
Implementing an epistemologically authentic approach to student-centered inquiry learning	23
Eye tracking in physics education research: A systematic literature review	22
Critical race and feminist standpoint theories in physics education research: A historical review and potential applications	21
Effect of an introductory quantum physics course using experiments with heralded photons on preuniversity students’ conceptions about quantum physics	21
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	20
Design-based research as a model for systematic curriculum development: The example of a curriculum for introductory optics	19
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	19
Future quantum workforce: Competences, requirements, and forecasts	19
Can ChatGPT support prospective teachers in physics task development?	18
Eye-movement study of high- and low-prior-knowledge students’ scientific argumentations with multiple representations	18

Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	17
Analyzing admissions metrics as predictors of graduate GPA and whether graduate GPA mediates Ph.D. completion	17
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	17
Characterizing active learning environments in physics using network analysis and classroom observations	17
Gendered performance differences in introductory physics: A study from a large land-grant university	17
Student recognition of interference and diffraction patterns: An eye-tracking study	16
Teaching electric circuits with a focus on potential differences	16
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	16
Classification of open-ended responses to a research-based assessment using natural language processing	16
Student knowledge integration in learning mechanical wave propagation	16
Knowledge integration in student learning of Newton’s third law: Addressing the action-reaction language and the implied causality	16
Insights from the Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop: How do new physics faculty teach?	15
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	15
Skills-focused lab instruction improves critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students	15
Mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics	15
Development of a two-tier instrument on simple electric circuits	15
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study	14
Intersectional analysis of Advanced Placement Physics participation and performance by gender and ethnicity	14
Designing and implementing materials on quantum computing for secondary school students: The case of teleportation	14
Undergraduate student experiences in remote lab courses during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Test of understanding graphs in kinematics: Item objectives confirmed by clustering eye movement transitions	14
Optimizing the length of computerized adaptive testing for the Force Concept Inventory	14
Communities of practice as a curriculum design theory in an introductory physics class for engineers	14
Difficulties in understanding mechanical waves: Remediated by problem-based instruction	13
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	13
Today’s interdisciplinary quantum information classroom: Themes from a survey of quantum information science instructors	13
Importance of math prerequisites for performance in introductory physics	13
Introductory physics lab instructors’ perspectives on measurement uncertainty	13
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	13
Evaluating the role of student preference in physics lab group equity	13
Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition	13
Impact of informal physics programs on university student development: Creating a physicist	12
Designing research-based instructional materials that leverage dual-process theories of reasoning: Insights from testing one specific, theory-driven intervention	12
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	12
Not engaging with problems in the lab: Students’ navigation of conflicting data and models	12
Examining the effects of lab instruction and gender composition on intergroup interaction networks in introductory physics labs	12
Impact of broad categorization on statistical results: How underrepresented minority designation can mask the struggles of both Asian American and African American students	12
Development and validation of a conceptual survey instrument to evaluate students’ understanding of thermodynamics	12
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	12
Informal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?	12
Effect of students’ investigative experiments on students’ recognition of interference and diffraction patterns: An eye-tracking study	12
Inclusive learning environments can improve student learning and motivational beliefs	11
Toward AI grading of student problem solutions in introductory physics: A feasibility study	11
Remote advanced lab course: A case study analysis of open-ended projects	11
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	11
Impact of virtual research experience for undergraduates experiences on students’ psychosocial gains during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of simple electric circuits	11
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	11
Concept of a transductive link	11
Investigating students’ views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes	11

Transitioning to online instruction: Strong ties and anxiety	11
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	11
Effects of metacognitive scaffolding on students’ performance and confidence judgments in simulation-based inquiry	10
Improving test security and efficiency of computerized adaptive testing for the Force Concept Inventory	10
Framework for unpacking students’ mindsets in physics by gender	10
Incorporating writing in advanced lab projects: A multiple case-study analysis	10
Integrating artificial intelligence-based methods into qualitative research in physics education research: A case for computational grounded theory	10
Research-based quantum instruction: Paradigms and Tutorials	10
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	10
Sequential and simultaneous synthesis problem solving: A comparison of students’ gaze transitions	10
Exploring and supporting student reasoning in physics by leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making	10
Comparison of labatorials and traditional labs: The impacts of instructional scaffolding on the student experience and conceptual understanding	10
Framework for evaluating statistical models in physics education research	10
Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	10
Examining the relation of correct knowledge and misconceptions using the nominal response model	10
Applying module analysis to the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism	10
Long-term collaboration with strong friendship ties improves academic performance in remote and hybrid teaching modalities in high school physics	9
Social positioning in small group interactions in an investigative science learning environment physics class	9
Sketching to support visual learning with interactive tutorials	9
Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light	9
Possible misconceptions about solid friction	9
Maintaining item banks with the Rasch model: An example from wave optics	9
Exploring the effects of omitted variable bias in physics education research	9
Gender differences in classroom experiences impacting self-efficacy in an AP Physics 1 classroom	8
Deeper look at question categories, concepts, and context covered: Modified module analysis of quantum mechanics concept assessment	8
Challenges and opportunities for informal physics learning in the COVID era	8
Learning assistants as student partners in introductory physics	8
Patterns in assignment submission times: Procrastination, gender, grades, and grade components	8
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	8
Fostering appropriation through designing for multiple access points to a multidimensional understanding of physics	8
Evaluating instructional labs’ use of deliberate practice to teach critical thinking skills	8
Refining a model for understanding and characterizing instructor pedagogy in informal physics learning environments	8
Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education	7
Isolation and connectedness among Black and Latinx physics graduate students	7
Examining the dynamics of decision making when designing curriculum in partnership with students: How should we proceed?	7
University student conceptual resources for understanding forces	7
Development and validation of an astronomy self-efficacy instrument for understanding and doing	7
Investigating how university students collaborate to compose physics problems through structured tasks	7
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	7
Equitable approach to introductory calculus-based physics courses focused on problem solving	7
Understanding interaction network formation across instructional contexts in remote physics courses	7
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	7
Evidence of measurement invariance across gender for the Force Concept Inventory	7
Instructor perspectives on the emergency transition to remote instruction of physics labs	7
Phenomenographic analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic interactions	7
Students’ difficulties with partial differential equations in quantum mechanics	6
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	6
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	6
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	6
Departmental support structures for physics graduate students: Development and psychometric evaluation of a self-report instrument	6
Disciplinary significance of social caring in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics	6
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	6
Development and illustration of a framework for computational thinking practices in introductory physics	6
Physics Graduate Record Exam does not help applicants “stand out”	6
Positive attitudinal shifts and a narrowing gender gap: Do expertlike attitudes correlate to higher learning gains for women in the physics classroom?	6
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: From tragedy to more progressive policies and an evolving culture	6
Reasoning with evidence while modeling: Successes at the middle school level	6
Investigating institutional influence on graduate program admissions by modeling physics Graduate Record Examination cutoff scores	6
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	6
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	6
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	6
Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study	6
Increasing the effectiveness of active learning using deliberate practice: A homework transformation	6
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	6
Shifting the learning gears: Redesigning a project-based course on soft matter through the perspective of constructionism	6
How the introduction of self-assessment rubrics helped students and teachers in a project laboratory course	6
Rubric-based holistic review: A promising route to equitable graduate admissions in physics	5
Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire	5
Characterizations of student, instructor, and textbook discourse related to basis and change of basis in quantum mechanics	5
How women physics teacher candidates utilize their double outsider identities to productively learn physics	5
Development and validation of the ray optics in converging lenses concept inventory	5
Validation of a coupled, multiple response assessment for upper-division thermal physics	5
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	5
Teaching research skills for experimental physics in an undergraduate electronics lab	5
Transforming the preparation of physics graduate teaching assistants: Curriculum development	5
Multidimensional item response theory and the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	5
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	5
Gender inequity in individual participation within physics and science, technology, engineering, and math courses	5
Theoretical model and quantitative assessment of scientific thinking and reasoning	5
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	5

Network analysis approach to Likert-style surveys	5
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	5
Survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments: An assessment of measurement uncertainty for introductory physics labs	5
Intuition in quantum mechanics: Student perspectives and expectations	5
Validity of Force Concept Inventory evaluated by students’ explanations and confirmation using modified item response curve	5
Mediating role of personality in the relation of gender to self-efficacy in physics and mathematics	5
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	5
Student behavior in undergraduate physics laboratories: Designing experiments	5
Contribution of self-directed, naked-eye observations to students’ conceptual understanding and attitudes towards astronomy	5
Introductory physics students’ recognition of strong peers: Gender and racial or ethnic bias differ by course level and context	5
Towards a research program in designing and evaluating teaching materials: An example from dc resistive circuits in introductory physics	5
Exploring student ideas on change of basis in quantum mechanics	5
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	5
Assessing student engagement with teamwork in an online, large-enrollment course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	5
Attributing equity gaps to course structure in introductory physics	5
Productive faculty resources activated by curricular materials: An example of epistemological beliefs in University Modeling Instruction	5
Workplace climate forLGBT+physicists: A view from students a	5
Improving accuracy in measuring the impact of online instruction on students’ ability to transfer physics problem-solving skills	5
Students’ context-sensitive use of conceptual resources: A pattern across different styles of question about mechanical waves	5
Frequent small group interactions improve student learning gains in physics: Results from a nationally representative pre-post study of four-year colleges	5
Rubric for assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems	4
Values affirmation replication at the University of Illinois	4
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	4
Evaluating the impact of a classroom simulator training on graduate teaching assistants’ instructional practices and undergraduate student learning	4
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	4
Measuring the level of homework answer copying during COVID-19 induced remote instruction	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
Students’ views about experimental physics in a large-enrollment introductory lab focused on experimental scientific practices	4
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	4
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	4
Gender differences in students’ self-efficacy in introductory physics courses in which women outnumber men predict their grade	4
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	4
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	4
Studying physics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Student perceptions on synchronous and asynchronous course formats and implications for the future	4
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	4
Assessing the impact of metacognitive postreflection exercises on problem-solving skillfulness	4
Integrating effective learning strategies in basic physics lectures: A thematic analysis	4
Policy recommendations from causal inference in physics education research	4
Characterizing the mathematical problem-solving strategies of transitioning novice physics students	4
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	4
Participatory approach to introduce computational modeling at the undergraduate level, extending existing curricula and practices: Augmenting derivations	4
Validated diagnostic test for introductory physics course placement	4
Applying a mathematical sense-making framework to student work and its potential for curriculum design	4
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	4
Data sharing model for physics education research using the 70 000 response Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics dataset	4
Causal reasoning in understanding Newton’s third law	4
Instructor interactions in traditional and nontraditional labs	4
Comparing introductory and beyond-introductory students’ reasoning about uncertainty	3
Probing high school students’ understanding of interference and diffraction of light using standard wave optics experiments	3
Tools for identifying courses that support development of expertlike physics attitudes	3
Improving high school physics outcomes for young women	3
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	3
German university students’ views of nature of science in the introductory phase	3
Fields in middle school energy instruction to support continued learning of energy	3
Motivations for using the item response theory nominal response model to rank responses to multiple-choice items	3
Students’ difficulties with solving bound and scattering state problems in quantum mechanics	3
Impact of introductory physics for the life sciences in a senior biology capstone course	3
Cheat sites and artificial intelligence usage in online introductory physics courses: What is the extent and what effect does it have on assessments?	3
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	3
Student sensemaking about inconsistencies in a reform-based introductory physics lab	3
Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	3
Identifying students’ mental models of the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	3
Preliminary development of a simple statistical tool for estimating mental model states from a diagnostic test	3
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	3
From Cartesian coordinates to Hilbert space: Supporting student understanding of basis in quantum mechanics	3
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	3
Development and validation of an instrument to assess students’ science, technology, engineering, and mathematics identity	3
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	3
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	3
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	3
Investigating learning assistants’ use of questioning in online courses about introductory physics	3
Validity of the physics affective characteristics scale for Flemish pharmacy and biology majors	3
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	3
Does confidence in a wrong answer imply a misconception?	3
Exploring the introductory physics classroom through the lens of intellectual humility: Handling what you do not know	2
Integrating argumentation in physics inquiry: A design and evaluation study	2
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	2
How curriculum developers’ cognitive theories influence curriculum development	2
Measurement invariance across race and gender for the Force Concept Inventory	2
Context interactions and physics faculty’s professional development: Case study	2
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	2
Instructional model for teaching blended math-science sensemaking in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math courses using computer simulations	2
Disparities in access to U.S. quantum information education	2
Comparing conceptual understanding across institutions with module analysis	2
Factors related to girls’ choice of physics for university entrance exams in Japan	2
Statistically equivalent models with different causal structures: An example from physics identity	2
Peer interaction facilitates co-construction of knowledge in quantum mechanics	2
How instructors can view knowledge to implement culturally relevant pedagogy	2
Impact of problem context on students’ concept definition of an expectation value	2
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	2
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	2
Rethinking the division of labor between tutorial writers and instructors with respect to fostering equitable team dynamics	2
Conceptual framework assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of measurement uncertainty	2
Rethinking doctoral qualifying exams and candidacy in the physical sciences: Learning toward scientific legitimacy	2
Development and assessment of a course-based undergraduate research experience for online astronomy majors	2