OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

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	73
Damage caused by women’s lower self-efficacy on physics learning	58
Preparing for the quantum revolution: What is the role of higher education?	47
Associations between learning assistants, passing introductory physics, and equity: A quantitative critical race theory investigation	36
Effect of gender, self-efficacy, and interest on perception of the learning environment and outcomes in calculus-based introductory physics courses	33
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	31
Investigating the landscape of physics laboratory instruction across North America	30
Group roles in unstructured labs show inequitable gender divide	30
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	24
Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years	24
Investigating society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in student attitudes about physics using quantitative critical race theory	23
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	21
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of momentum	21
Exploring the structure of misconceptions in the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation with modified module analysis	21
Implementing an epistemologically authentic approach to student-centered inquiry learning	21
Students’ sense of belonging in introductory physics course for bioscience majors predicts their grade	21
Effect of culture on women physicists’ career choice: A comparison of Muslim majority countries and the West	20
Effect of integrating physics education technology simulations on students’ conceptual understanding in physics: A review of literature	20
Impact of a course transformation on students’ reasoning about measurement uncertainty	20
Epistemology, socialization, help seeking, and gender-based views in in-person and online, hands-on undergraduate physics laboratories	19
How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	19
Critical race and feminist standpoint theories in physics education research: A historical review and potential applications	19
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	19
Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review	18

Eye tracking in physics education research: A systematic literature review	18
Thematic analysis of 18 years of physics education research conference proceedings using natural language processing	18
Framework of goals for writing in physics lab classes	18
Grades, grade component weighting, and demographic disparities in introductory physics	18
Design-based research as a model for systematic curriculum development: The example of a curriculum for introductory optics	17
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	17
Students’ understanding of the concept of the electric field through conversions of multiple representations	17
Effect of an introductory quantum physics course using experiments with heralded photons on preuniversity students’ conceptions about quantum physics	16
Community of practice approach for understanding identity development within informal physics programs	16
Social networks and academic performance in physics: Undergraduate cooperation enhances ill-structured problem elaboration and inhibits well-structured problem solving	16
Assessing mathematical sensemaking in physics through calculation-concept crossover	16
Eye-movement study of high- and low-prior-knowledge students’ scientific argumentations with multiple representations	16
Classification of open-ended responses to a research-based assessment using natural language processing	15
Programming and its affordances for physics education: A social semiotic and variation theory approach to learning physics	15
Network positions in active learning environments in physics	15
Template for teaching and assessment of problem solving in introductory physics	14
Teaching electric circuits with a focus on potential differences	14
Gendered motivations and aspirations of university physics students in Finland	14
Gendered performance differences in introductory physics: A study from a large land-grant university	14
Mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics	13
Insights from the Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop: How do new physics faculty teach?	13
Analyzing admissions metrics as predictors of graduate GPA and whether graduate GPA mediates Ph.D. completion	13
Student recognition of interference and diffraction patterns: An eye-tracking study	13
Using machine learning to identify the most at-risk students in physics classes	13
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	13
Holistic framework to help students learn effectively from research-validated self-paced learning tools	13
Categorical framework for mathematical sense making in physics	12
Using virtual reality in electrostatics instruction: The impact of training	12
Communities of practice as a curriculum design theory in an introductory physics class for engineers	12
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	12
Test of understanding graphs in kinematics: Item objectives confirmed by clustering eye movement transitions	12
Development of a two-tier instrument on simple electric circuits	12
Importance of math prerequisites for performance in introductory physics	12
Physics teacher isolation, contextual characteristics, and student performance	12
Characterizing active learning environments in physics using network analysis and classroom observations	12
Learning assistant approaches to teaching computational physics problems in a problem-based learning course	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
Brazilian physicists community diversity, equity, and inclusion: A first diagnostic	11
Students’ use and perception of textbooks and online resources in introductory physics	11
Concept of a transductive link	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
Remote advanced lab course: A case study analysis of open-ended projects	11
Development and validation of a conceptual survey instrument to evaluate students’ understanding of thermodynamics	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
Not engaging with problems in the lab: Students’ navigation of conflicting data and models	11
Skills-focused lab instruction improves critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students	11
LGBT+ physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven suppo	10

Evaluating the role of student preference in physics lab group equity	10
Disabling barriers experienced by students with disabilities in postsecondary introductory physics	10
Relationship between students’ online learning behavior and course performance: What contextual information matters?	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
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	10
Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition	10
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	10
Effect of students’ investigative experiments on students’ recognition of interference and diffraction patterns: An eye-tracking study	10
Guiding students towards an understanding of the electromotive force concept in electromagnetic phenomena through a teaching-learning sequence	10
Introductory physics lab instructors’ perspectives on measurement uncertainty	10
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	10
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
Research-based quantum instruction: Paradigms and Tutorials	9
Examining the relation of correct knowledge and misconceptions using the nominal response model	9
Designing research-based instructional materials that leverage dual-process theories of reasoning: Insights from testing one specific, theory-driven intervention	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
Incorporating writing in advanced lab projects: A multiple case-study analysis	9
Examining the effects of lab instruction and gender composition on intergroup interaction networks in introductory physics labs	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
Undergraduate student experiences in remote lab courses during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Difficulties in understanding mechanical waves: Remediated by problem-based instruction	9
Beyond teaching methods: Highlighting physics faculty’s strengths and agency	9
Impact of informal physics programs on university student development: Creating a physicist	9
Evaluating instructional labs’ use of deliberate practice to teach critical thinking skills	8
Intersectional analysis of Advanced Placement Physics participation and performance by gender and ethnicity	8
Effects of instruction on students’ overconfidence in introductory quantum mechanics	8
Designing and implementing materials on quantum computing for secondary school students: The case of teleportation	8
Sketching to support visual learning with interactive tutorials	8
Comparison of labatorials and traditional labs: The impacts of instructional scaffolding on the student experience and conceptual understanding	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
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	8
Inclusive learning environments can improve student learning and motivational beliefs	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
Impact of virtual research experience for undergraduates experiences on students’ psychosocial gains during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	8
Social positioning in small group interactions in an investigative science learning environment physics class	8
Future quantum workforce: Competences, requirements, and forecasts	8
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	8