Physical Review Physics Education Research

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	148
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	98
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	93
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	89
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	81
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	70
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	58
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	58
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	57
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	32
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	32
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	32
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	31
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	30
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	25
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	23
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	21
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change	21
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	21
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	20
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	20
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	19
Students’ understanding of the 2D heat equation: An action, process, object, schema approach	19
Students’ eye-movement behaviors in solving physics problems with different information structures	19
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	19

Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	18
Nature of heat inventory: Assessing student understanding of thermal processes in kinetic molecular terms	18
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	18
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	18
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	18
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	18
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	18
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	18
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	16
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	16
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	15
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	15
Defining a physics person: Tensions in the identity development of undergraduate women in physics	14
Qualitative investigation of students’ cross-disciplinary understanding of energy concepts	14
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	14
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	14
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	13
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	13
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	13
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	13
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	13
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	13
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	12
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	12
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	12
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	12
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	12
Expert perspectives on the future of quantum physics education at the secondary level	12
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	11
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	11
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	11
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world	11
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Dynamics of collaborative modeling in an ill-structured real-world problem	11
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	11
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	11
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	11
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	11
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	11
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	11
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	10
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	10
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	10

Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	10
Young women’s longitudinal identity negotiations in physics and mathematics throughout upper secondary education	10
Educational reconstruction of nuclear astrophysics in a design-based research project	10
When AI evaluates its own work: Validating learner-initiated, AI-generated physics practice problems	10
Using representational gesture to enact instants in collaborative problem solving in physics	10
Do we have a quantum computer? Expert perspectives on current state and future prospects	10
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	10
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	10
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	10
Can large language models correctly interpret equations with errors?	10
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	10
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	9
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	9
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	9
Analyzing problem solving in secondary physics education: A rubric-guided approach to explore individual learning needs	9
Examining factors influencing the development and evolution of self-efficacy and sense of belonging in a physics class	9
Student sensemaking on electrostatics problems involving the method of images through the lens of epistemic game framework	9
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	9
Graph theoretical methods for understanding student social interactions in physics classrooms	9
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	9
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	9
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	9
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	9
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	9
Overcoming the more measurements, the better intuitive heuristic in physics data evaluation: The role of inhibitory control	9
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	9
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	8
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	8
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	8
Preservice physics teachers’ nonroutine problem-posing process: Metacognitive strategies and beliefs	8
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	8
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	8
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	8
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	8
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	8
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	8
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	8
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	8
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	8
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	7
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	7
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	7
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	7
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	7
Generative AI for feedback and collaborative knowledge construction in preservice physics teacher education	7
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	7
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	7
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	7
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	7
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	7
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	7
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	7
High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series	7
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	7
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	7
Evaluating a department-wide initiative incorporating computational methods into the undergraduate physics curriculum	7
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	7
Performance of ChatGPT in solving wave problems	6
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics using a validated instrument	6
Visual representation of optical content in China’s and Singapore’s junior secondary physics textbooks	6
Effectiveness of science outreach labs with and without connection to classroom learning: Affective and cognitive outcomes	6
Students’ metacognition knowledge and skills during physics problem-solving process	6
Students’ experience of cultural differences between mathematics and physics	6
How students can use coherence to reconstruct a partially forgotten equation	6
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	6
How to design research-aligned diversity, equity, and inclusion interventions in physics	6
Assessment of knowledge integration in student learning of galvanic cell: An interdisciplinary approach connecting physics and chemistry	6
Trends and themes of twenty years of physics education research: A bibliometric analysis of PRPER publications	6
Effect of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on secondary school students’ understanding of wave optics	6
Use of hands-on classroom experiments as physical analogies in student discussion	6

What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography	6
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	6
Comparison of two semiotic perspectives: How do students use representations in physics?	6
Analyzing the history of physics education in the USA and Europe through natural language processing	6
Global blind spot in understanding trigonometric derivatives: A multinational analysis	6
Impact of outreach on physics student development: Quantitative results from a national survey	6
Taking on a manager role can support women’s physics lab identity development	6
Characterizing social behavior patterns in teaching assistant interactions with students	6
Interactive homework to support student learning of measurement uncertainty in quantum mechanics	6
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	6
Redesigning a first year physics lab course on the basis of the procedural and conceptual knowledge in science model	5
Investigating students’ self-identified and reflected appraisal of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny in introductory physics courses	5
Learning enhancing emotions predict student retention: Multilevel emotions of Finnish university physics students in and outside learning situations	5
Comment on “How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses”	5
Presenting a STEM Ways of Thinking framework for engineering design-based physics problems	5
Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states	5
Sensemaking and scientific modeling: Intertwined processes analyzed in the context of physics problem solving	5
Importance of accounting for student identities and intersectionality for creating equitable and inclusive physics learning environments	5
Uncovering student conceptual structure by a multimethod evaluation of the energy and momentum conceptual survey	5
Students’ difficulties with the Dirac delta function in quantum mechanics	5
Implementation of an investigative science learning environment based laboratory course taught by novice instructors	5
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data	5
Descending an inclined plane with a large language model	5
Investigating undergraduate students’ views about the process of experimental physics	5
Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates	5
Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race?	5
Investigating transitional processes in learning progressions: A case study of force and motion	5
Investigation of preservice physics teacher’s conceptual changes using the quantum interactive learning tutorials in Korea	5
Investigating introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with change in internal energy, work, and heat transfer using a validated instrument	5
Testing quantum reasoning: Developing, validating, and application of a questionnaire	5
Tracking students’ progression in developing understanding of energy using AI technologies	5
Ongoing effects of pandemic-imposed learning environment disruption on student attitudes	5
Assessing high school students’ understanding of friction force: A cognitive diagnostic modeling approach	5
Beyond named methods: A typology of active learning based on classroom observation networks	5
Student gender modulates the intersection of calculus proficiency and calculus self-efficacy in an introductory electricity and magnetism course	5
Students’ understanding of two-variable calculus concepts in mathematics and physics contexts. I. The partial derivative and the directional derivative	5
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates’ knowledge and interest in quantum careers: Barriers and opportunities to building a diverse quantum workforce	5
Exploring generative AI assisted feedback writing for students’ written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning	5
Reducing procrastination on introductory physics online homework for college students using a planning prompt intervention	4
Female physics students gain from facilitating informal physics programs	4
Cheat sites and artificial intelligence usage in online introductory physics courses: What is the extent and what effect does it have on assessments?	4
Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group	4
Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person	4
How women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer physics doctoral students navigate graduate education: The roles of professional environments and social networks	4
Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: A pandemic follow-up	4
Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions	4
Method to assess the trustworthiness of machine coding at scale	4
Physics teachers’ professional development on measurement uncertainty: A commognitive approach	4
Role of inhibition in overcoming interferences of misconception under similar feature saliency: An eye-tracking study of the projectile motion problem	4
Critical issues in statistical causal inference for observational physics education research	4
Relating students’ social belonging and course performance across multiple assessment types in a calculus-based introductory physics 1 course	4
When physics becomes abstract, analogies emerge: Examining the characteristics and pedagogical quality of analogies in high school physics textbooks	4
Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms	4
Evolution of response time and accuracy on online mastery practice assignments for introductory physics students	4
Variability in student reasoning about radioactive decay as a stochastic process	4
Investigating the design-science connection in a multiweek engineering design-based introductory physics laboratory task	4
Advancing clustering methods in physics education research: A case for mixture models	4
Response-shift bias in student self-efficacy during an actively taught physics course	4
Students’ views of experimental physics after participating in lab courses with open-ended activities	4
Roles of mathematics in physics education: A systematic review	4
Assessment designs of instructional labs: A literature review and a design model	4
Students’ perspectives on computational challenges in physics class	4
Persistence, context, and visual strategy of graph understanding: Gaze patterns reveal student difficulties in interpreting graphs	4
Analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss’s and Ampere’s laws	4
Network analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of mathematical expressions for probability in upper-division quantum mechanics	4
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	4
Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics	4
Inclusive teaching strategies are not widely used by male physics instructors	4
Organizing energy instruction around the work and energy relation to support knowledge integration in secondary physics	4
How to help students learn: An investigation of how in- and pre-service physics teachers respond to students’ explanations	4
Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains	4
How and why physics faculty share their identities with students: Four personas	4
Open versus closed-response methods of measuring students’ reasoning: A case study using the physics measurement questionnaire	4
Statistically equivalent models with different causal structures: An example from physics identity	3
Student understandings of discrete and continuous in quantum mechanics: A thematic analysis	3
Undergraduate students’ application of special relativity to paradoxes	3
Teacher learning about the integration of energy and equity: A case study	3
Fields in middle school energy instruction to support continued learning of energy	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
Analysis of visual-based physics questions of the senior high school entrance examination in China	3
Students’ conceptual understanding of electric flux and magnetic circulation	3
Using text embeddings for deductive qualitative research at scale in physics education	3
Toward thinking quantumly: Student reasoning about the enigma of QM	3
Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study	3
Comparing introductory undergraduate physics learning and behavior before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Inquiry-based experimental physics: Twenty years of an evidence-based, laboratory-based physics course for algebra-based physics students	3
Difficulties in diagram interpretation in physics: An eye-tracking study of visual attention and diagram interpretation strategies	3
Exploring the role of human-AI collaboration in solving scientific problems	3
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!	3
Examining the mismatch between the intended astronomy curriculum content, astronomical literacy, and the astronomical universe	3
Incentivizing supplemental math assignments and using AI-generated hints is associated with improved exam performance	3
Development and validation of the ray optics in converging lenses concept inventory	3
Editorial: Discontinuation of short papers in PRPER	3
Challenges in sensemaking and reasoning in the context of degenerate perturbation theory in quantum mechanics	3
Promoting knowledge integration in work and mechanical energy through conceptual framework and cooperative learning instruction	3