Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	92
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	43
Transforming the preparation of physics graduate teaching assistants: Curriculum development	41
Workplace climate forLGBT+physicists: A view from students a	39
Validity of Force Concept Inventory evaluated by students’ explanations and confirmation using modified item response curve	37
Gender differences in classroom experiences impacting self-efficacy in an AP Physics 1 classroom	35
Examining equity and graduation rates at two institutions using a course deficit model and the collaborative learning through active sense-making in physics curriculum	34
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	33
Impactful experiences and their effect on learning assistant epistemological development	32
Improving scientific abilities through lab report revision in a high school investigative science learning environment classroom	32
Possible misconceptions about solid friction	32
Editorial: To Review Is to Be	30
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	29
Context interactions and physics faculty’s professional development: Case study	28
Validation of a coupled, multiple response assessment for upper-division thermal physics	27
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	26
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	26
Assessing the impact of metacognitive postreflection exercises on problem-solving skillfulness	25
Students’ sense of belonging in introductory physics course for bioscience majors predicts their grade	24
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	22
Equitable approach to introductory calculus-based physics courses focused on problem solving	21
Measuring the level of homework answer copying during COVID-19 induced remote instruction	21
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	21
Assessing student engagement with teamwork in an online, large-enrollment course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	20
Evolution of grades and social comparison concern within an introductory physics course	18

Rethinking doctoral qualifying exams and candidacy in the physical sciences: Learning toward scientific legitimacy	18
Statistically equivalent models with different causal structures: An example from physics identity	18
Studying physics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Student perceptions on synchronous and asynchronous course formats and implications for the future	18
Measurement invariance across race and gender for the Force Concept Inventory	17
Introductory physics lab instructors’ perspectives on measurement uncertainty	17
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	17
Knowledge integration in student learning of Newton’s third law: Addressing the action-reaction language and the implied causality	17
Survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments: An assessment of measurement uncertainty for introductory physics labs	17
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	17
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	16
Analyzing admissions metrics as predictors of graduate GPA and whether graduate GPA mediates Ph.D. completion	16
Designing and implementing materials on quantum computing for secondary school students: The case of teleportation	15
Inquiry-based experimental physics: Twenty years of an evidence-based, laboratory-based physics course for algebra-based physics students	15
Eye tracking in physics education research: A systematic literature review	15
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: From tragedy to more progressive policies and an evolving culture	15
Development of a two-tier instrument on simple electric circuits	15
Development and assessment of a course-based undergraduate research experience for online astronomy majors	14
Peer interaction facilitates co-construction of knowledge in quantum mechanics	14
Conceptual framework assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of measurement uncertainty	14
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	13
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	13
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	13
Analysis of students’ conceptual change in learning Newton’s third law with an integrated framework of model analysis and knowledge integration	13
Examining the mismatch between the intended astronomy curriculum content, astronomical literacy, and the astronomical universe	13
Conceptual framework for understanding empathy in physics faculty	13
Challenges in sensemaking and reasoning in the context of degenerate perturbation theory in quantum mechanics	13
Learning assistants as student partners in introductory physics	13
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	12
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	12
Gender bias in first-year multiple-choice physics examinations	12
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	12
Characterizing active learning environments in physics using network analysis and classroom observations	12
Phenomenographic analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic interactions	11
Effect of integrating physics education technology simulations on students’ conceptual understanding in physics: A review of literature	11
Increasing the effectiveness of active learning using deliberate practice: A homework transformation	11
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	11
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	11
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	11
Analysis of visual-based physics questions of the senior high school entrance examination in China	11
Investigating faculty perspectives on written qualifying exams in physics	11
Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition	11
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	10
Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding	10
Intuition in quantum mechanics: Student perspectives and expectations	10
Pedagogical moves related to analogy that support a unified understanding of eigentheory concepts in a quantum mechanics class	10
Algebra and other relevant physics skills: The effectiveness of mastery practice on skills accuracy and exam grade in introductory physics	10
Analyzing interviews on computational thinking for introductory physics students: Toward a generalized assessment	10
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	10
How instructors can view knowledge to implement culturally relevant pedagogy	10
Can ChatGPT support prospective teachers in physics task development?	9

Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	9
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	9
Exploring and supporting student reasoning in physics by leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making	9
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	9
Attributing equity gaps to course structure in introductory physics	9
Eye-movement study of high- and low-prior-knowledge students’ scientific argumentations with multiple representations	9
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	8
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	8
Motivations for using the item response theory nominal response model to rank responses to multiple-choice items	8
Teaching strategies predict instructors’ perceptions of their effectiveness in engaging students in introductory physics for life sciences courses	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review	8
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	8
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study	8
Comparing introductory undergraduate physics learning and behavior before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	8
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	7
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	7
Evaluating the impact of a classroom simulator training on graduate teaching assistants’ instructional practices and undergraduate student learning	7
Participation, performance, and outcomes in an undergraduate physics degree: Perspectives on gender and socioeconomic factors	7
Instructor perspectives on the emergency transition to remote instruction of physics labs	7
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	7
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	7
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	7
Identifying students’ mental models of the apparent motion of the Sun and stars	7
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	7
Teacher learning about the integration of energy and equity: A case study	7
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	7
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	7
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	7
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	6
Validity of the physics affective characteristics scale for Flemish pharmacy and biology majors	6
Evidence for validity and reliability of a research-based assessment instrument on measurement uncertainty	6
Validated diagnostic test for introductory physics course placement	6
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	6
Importance of accounting for student identities and intersectionality for creating equitable and inclusive physics learning environments	6
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	6
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	6
Using sequential synthesis problems to investigate novice teachers’ conceptions of hydrodynamics	6
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	6
Departmental case study of physics doctoral students’ perspectives of written qualifying exams	6
Vector representations and unit vector representations of fields: Problems of understanding and possible teaching strategies	6
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	6
Applying a mathematical sense-making framework to student work and its potential for curriculum design	6
Impact of informal physics programs on university student development: Creating a physicist	6
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	6
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	6
Mathematical structures in quantum physics education for high school students: Unveiling the power of Dirac notation for conceptual and problem-solving proficiency	6
Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields	6
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	5
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	5
Student conceptual resources for understanding electric circuits	5
Development and validation of the ray optics in converging lenses concept inventory	5
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	5
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	5
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	5
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	5
Factors related to girls’ choice of physics for university entrance exams in Japan	5
Improving test security and efficiency of computerized adaptive testing for the Force Concept Inventory	5
Exploring the sequential structure of students’ physics problem-solving approaches using process mining and sequence analysis	5
Preliminary development of a simple statistical tool for estimating mental model states from a diagnostic test	5
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	5
Classification of open-ended responses to a research-based assessment using natural language processing	5
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	5
Student understanding of eigenvalue equations in quantum mechanics: Symbolic blending and sensemaking analysis	5
Physics lab courses under digital transformation: A trinational survey among university lab instructors about the role of new digital technologies and learning objectives	5
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	5
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	5
Critical race and feminist standpoint theories in physics education research: A historical review and potential applications	5
Fields in middle school energy instruction to support continued learning of energy	5
Editorial: Discontinuation of short papers in PRPER	5
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	5
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	5
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	5
Effect of an introductory quantum physics course using experiments with heralded photons on preuniversity students’ conceptions about quantum physics	5
Bioscience students’ internalized mindsets predict grades and reveal gender inequities in physics courses	5
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	4
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	4

Editorial: Research on Advancing Equity Is Critical for Physics	4
Comparing conceptual understanding across institutions with module analysis	4
Participatory approach to introduce computational modeling at the undergraduate level, extending existing curricula and practices: Augmenting derivations	4
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	4
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	4
Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	4
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	4
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	4
Effect of gender, self-efficacy, and interest on perception of the learning environment and outcomes in calculus-based introductory physics courses	4
Confirmatory factor analysis of two self-efficacy scales for astronomy understanding and robotic telescope use	4
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	4
Values affirmation replication at the University of Illinois	4
Using the Energy and Momentum Conceptual Survey to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	4
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	4
Development and illustration of a framework for computational thinking practices in introductory physics	4
Assessment tool to understand how students justify their decisions in data comparison problems	4
Prevalence of a growth mindset among introductory astronomy students	4
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	4
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	4
Evaluating the role of student preference in physics lab group equity	4
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	4
Framework for evaluating statistical models in physics education research	4
Characterizations of student, instructor, and textbook discourse related to basis and change of basis in quantum mechanics	4
Investigative study on preprint journal club as an effective method of teaching latest knowledge in astronomy	4
Student sensemaking about inconsistencies in a reform-based introductory physics lab	4
Gender differences in students’ self-efficacy in introductory physics courses in which women outnumber men predict their grade	4
Physics Graduate Record Exam does not help applicants “stand out”	4
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	4
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	4
Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years	4
Using drawing to study student research experiences	4
Comparing students’ learning and development of scientific abilities with apparatus-based versus video-based experimentation	4
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	3
Video clubs in physics teaching assistant training: Teaching assistants’ experiences	3
Improving student understanding of quantum measurement in infinite-dimensional Hilbert space using a research-based multiple-choice question sequence	3
Exploring student ideas on change of basis in quantum mechanics	3
Improving undergraduate astronomy students’ skills with research literature via accessible summaries: An exploratory case study with Astrobites-based reading assignments	3
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	3
Intersectional analysis of Advanced Placement Physics participation and performance by gender and ethnicity	3
Electromagnetic field presented in introductory physics textbooks and consequences for its teaching	3
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	3
Network analysis approach to Likert-style surveys	3
Comment on “How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses”	3
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	3
Integrating argumentation in physics inquiry: A design and evaluation study	3
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	3
Investigating learning assistants’ use of questioning in online courses about introductory physics	3
Long-term collaboration with strong friendship ties improves academic performance in remote and hybrid teaching modalities in high school physics	3
How women physics teacher candidates utilize their double outsider identities to productively learn physics	3
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	3
Should frames of reference be enacted in astronomy instruction?	3
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	3
Planning for participants’ varying needs and abilities in qualitative research	3
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	3
Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light	3
What correlates with persistence of women in physics?	3
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	3
Comparing the perception of emergency remote teaching experience between physics and nonphysics students	3
Comment on “Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics”	3
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	2
Skills-focused lab instruction improves critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students	2
Analysis of pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics of high school students and teachers	2
Investigating students’ views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes	2
Theoretical model and quantitative assessment of scientific thinking and reasoning	2
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	2
Rubric for assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems	2
Methods of research design and analysis for identifying knowledge resources	2
Cross-age study on secondary school students’ views of stars	2
Exploring the introductory physics classroom through the lens of intellectual humility: Handling what you do not know	2
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	2
Disparities in access to U.S. quantum information education	2
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	2
Persistence, context, and visual strategy of graph understanding: Gaze patterns reveal student difficulties in interpreting graphs	2
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	2
Effects of metacognitive scaffolding on students’ performance and confidence judgments in simulation-based inquiry	2
Disciplinary significance of social caring in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics	2
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	2
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	2
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	2
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	2
Exploring student reasoning in statistical mechanics: Identifying challenges in problem-solving groups	2
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	2
Conceptual challenges with the graphical representation of the propagation of a pulse in a string	2
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	2
Editorial: Announcing the PRPER Statistical Modeling Review Committee (SMRC)	2
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	2
Student representations of a community of practice	2
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of simple electric circuits	2
Comment on “Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions”	2
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	2
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	2
Instructional model for teaching blended math-science sensemaking in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math courses using computer simulations	2
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	2
Comparing large language models for supervised analysis of students’ lab notes	2
Difficulties in understanding mechanical waves: Remediated by problem-based instruction	2