Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	130
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	73
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	72
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	67
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	55
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	54
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	53
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	50
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	48
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	45
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	44
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	35
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	34
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	34
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	30
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	28
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	25
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	25
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	24
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	24
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	23
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	21
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	20
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	20

Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	19
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	19
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change	19
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	19
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	19
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	18
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	18
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	17
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	17
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	17
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	16
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	16
Using drawing to study student research experiences	16
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	15
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	15
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	15
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	14
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	14
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	14
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	14
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	14
Qualitative investigation of students’ cross-disciplinary understanding of energy concepts	14
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	13
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	13
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	13
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	13
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	12
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	12
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	12
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world	12
Expert perspectives on the future of quantum physics education at the secondary level	12
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	12
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	12
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	11
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	11
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	11
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	10
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	10
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	10
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	10
Detecting preservice teachers’ visual attention under prediction and nonprediction conditions with eye-tracking technology	10
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	10

Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	10
Using representational gesture to enact instants in collaborative problem solving in physics	9
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	9
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	9
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Analyzing problem-solving in secondary physics education: A rubric-guided approach to explore individual learning needs	9
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	9
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	9
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	9
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	9
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	9
Do we have a quantum computer? Expert perspectives on current state and future prospects	9
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	9
Can large language models correctly interpret equations with errors?	9
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Graph theoretical methods for understanding student social interactions in physics classrooms	8
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	8
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	8
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	8
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	8
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	8
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	8
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	7
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	7
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	7
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	7
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	7
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	7
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	7
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	7
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	7
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	7
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	7
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	7
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	7
Overcoming the more measurements, the better intuitive heuristic in physics data evaluation: The role of inhibitory control	7
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	7
Preservice physics teachers’ nonroutine problem posing process: Metacognitive strategies and beliefs	7
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	7
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	7
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	7
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	7
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	6
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	6
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	6
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	6
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	6
How to design research-aligned diversity, equity, and inclusion interventions in physics	6
Absence of a COVID-induced academic drop in high-school physics learning	6
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	6
Analyzing the history of physics education in the USA and Europe through natural language processing	6
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	6
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
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	6
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	6
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	6
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics using a validated instrument	6
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study	6
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	6
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	6
High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series	6
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	6
Investigating unprompted and prompted diagrams generated by physics majors during problem solving	6
Comparison of two semiotic perspectives: How do students use representations in physics?	6

Global blind spot in understanding trigonometric derivatives: A multinational analysis	6
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of galvanic cell: An interdisciplinary approach connecting physics and chemistry	6
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	5
Tracking students’ progression in developing understanding of energy using AI technologies	5
Harnessing active engagement in educational videos: Enhanced visuals and embedded questions	5
Impact of outreach on physics student development: Quantitative results from a national survey	5
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	5
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	5
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	5
Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	5
Motivations for using the item response theory nominal response model to rank responses to multiple-choice items	5
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	5
Students’ metacognition knowledge and skills during physics problem-solving process	5
Trends and themes of twenty years of physics education research: A bibliometric analysis of PRPER publications	5
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	5
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	5
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	5
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	5
Investigation of preservice physics teacher’s conceptual changes using the quantum interactive learning tutorials in Korea	5
Students’ understanding of two-variable calculus concepts in mathematics and physics contexts. I. The partial derivative and the directional derivative	5
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	5
What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography	5
Descending an inclined plane with a large language model	5
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	5
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	5
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	5
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
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	4
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	4
Network analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of mathematical expressions for probability in upper-division quantum mechanics	4
Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms	4
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	4
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	4
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	4
Editorial: Research on Advancing Equity Is Critical for Physics	4
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	4
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	4
Persistence, context, and visual strategy of graph understanding: Gaze patterns reveal student difficulties in interpreting graphs	4
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	4
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	4
Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics	4
Roles of mathematics in physics education: A systematic review	4
Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race?	4
Assessing high school students’ understanding of friction force: A cognitive diagnostic modeling approach	4
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	4
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	4
Uncovering student conceptual structure by a multimethod evaluation of the energy and momentum conceptual survey	4
Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains	4
Investigating undergraduate students’ views about the process of experimental physics	4
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	4
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	4
Investigating students’ views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes	4
Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates	4
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	4
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	4
Impactful experiences and their effect on learning assistant epistemological development	3
Student understandings of discrete and continuous in quantum mechanics: A thematic analysis	3
Analyzing interviews on computational thinking for introductory physics students: Toward a generalized assessment	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
Variability in student reasoning about radioactive decay as a stochastic process	3
Mediating role of personality in the relation of gender to self-efficacy in physics and mathematics	3
Investigating the design-science connection in a multiweek engineering design-based introductory physics laboratory task	3
Role of mentorship, career conceptualization, and leadership in developing women’s physics identity and belonging	3
Inclusive teaching strategies are not widely used by male physics instructors	3
Instructing nontraditional physics labs: Toward responsiveness to student epistemic framing	3
Advancing clustering methods in physics education research: A case for mixture models	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
Instructor interactions in traditional and nontraditional labs	3
Investigating students’ insight after attending a planetarium presentation about the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	3
Examining equity and graduation rates at two institutions using a course deficit model and the collaborative learning through active sense-making in physics curriculum	3
Workplace climate forLGBT+physicists: A view from students a	3
Promoting knowledge integration in work and mechanical energy through conceptual framework and cooperative learning instruction	3
Grading assistance for a handwritten thermodynamics exam using artificial intelligence: An exploratory study	3
Students’ views of experimental physics after participating in lab courses with open-ended activities	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
Students’ conceptual understanding of electric flux and magnetic circulation	3
How mixed reality shifts visual attention and success in experimental problem solving	3
How to help students learn: An investigation of how in- and pre-service physics teachers respond to students’ explanations	3
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	3
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!	3
Survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments: An assessment of measurement uncertainty for introductory physics labs	3
Inquiry-based experimental physics: Twenty years of an evidence-based, laboratory-based physics course for algebra-based physics students	3
Analysis of visual-based physics questions of the senior high school entrance examination in China	3
Studying physics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Student perceptions on synchronous and asynchronous course formats and implications for the future	3
Does confidence in a wrong answer imply a misconception?	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
Visualizing quantum states: A pilot study on problem solving in quantum information science education	3
Role of inhibition in overcoming interferences of misconception under similar feature saliency: An eye-tracking study of the projectile motion problem	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
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	3
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	3
Self-select groups increase stability but reduce collaboration in high school physics	3