OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years	27
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
Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review	25
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
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

Gendered performance differences in introductory physics: A study from a large land-grant university	17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition	13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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