http://prst-per.aps.org/ Accepted Papers for Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research hourly 1 2012-02-10T13:06:17-05:00 rss@aps.org assocpub@aps.org 2012-02-10T13:06:17-05:00 en Copyright © 2012 the American Physical Society. Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Copyright © 2012 the American Physical Society assocpub@aps.org http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/1e07dL8dXf41080e10a211e2cc9e9d794ecab469d We describe the difficulties that advanced undergraduate and graduate students have with quantum measurement within the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. We explore the possible origins of these difficulties by analyzing student responses to questions from both surveys and interviews. Re... Improving students understanding of quantum measurement. I. Investigation of difficulties 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/1e07dL8dXf41080e10a211e2cc9e9d794ecab469d ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/f107eL02Xf11cc04f0271c0372249a67100fc9fec We describe the development and implementation of research-based learning tools such as the Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials (QuILTs) and peer instruction tools to reduce students' common difficulties with issues related to measurement in quantum mechanics. A preliminary evaluation shows that ... Improving students understanding of quantum measurement. II. Development of research-based learning tools 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/f107eL02Xf11cc04f0271c0372249a67100fc9fec ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/50078L6aW521220d805b1375652f91a4803a95b75 Educators and policy-makers have advocated for reform of undergraduate biology education, calling for greater integration of mathematics and physics in the biology curriculum. While these calls reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of biology research, crossing disciplinary boundaries in... Disciplinary authenticity: Enriching the reforms of introductory physics courses for life-science students 2012-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/50078L6aW521220d805b1375652f91a4803a95b75 ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/fd075L94T191800ac0b2269195d9ef95da27d7ef9 In this paper we discuss a study on the approaches to modeling of students of the 4-year Elementary School Teacher program at the University of Palermo, Italy. The answers to a specially designed questionnaire are analyzed on the basis of an a-priori analysis made using a general scheme of reference... Prospective elementary teachers' perceptions of the processes of modeling: A case study 2012-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/fd075L94T191800ac0b2269195d9ef95da27d7ef9 ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/94073L28N0c1170210af1a536f6978abbe046276b During a one-semester-long research project with high school students, we deployed and gauged efficiency of two different reform teaching methods Reading, Presenting, and Questioning (RPQ) and Experimenting and Discussion (ED). In this article we report on changes in students' attitudes and beliefs ... Effects of two different types of physics learning on the results of CLASS test 2012-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/94073L28N0c1170210af1a536f6978abbe046276b ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/c307aLdeX101cc0a600517b71cd99668c86a8a3d4 We have found that non-STEM majors taking either a conceptual physics or astronomy course at two regional comprehensive institutions score significantly lower pre-instruction on the Lawson's Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning (LCTSR) in comparison to national average STEM majors. Based on LCTSR ... Scientific reasoning abilities of nonscience majors in physics-based courses 2012-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/c307aLdeX101cc0a600517b71cd99668c86a8a3d4 ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/d107bL67P6e10807d05612c24b9cb732c55a22792 Physics students can encounter difficulties in physics problem solving as a result of failing to use knowledge that they have but do not perceive as relevant or appropriate. In previous work the authors have demonstrated that some of these difficulties may be epistemological. Students may limit the ... Epistemic complexity and the journeyman-expert transition 2012-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/d107bL67P6e10807d05612c24b9cb732c55a22792 ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/79072L74U0d15b07605207475beb3796d4e147230 A perceived difficulty is associated with physics problem solving from a learners viewpoint, arising out of a multitude of reasons. In this paper, we have examined the microstructure of students’ thought processes during physics problem solving by combining the analysis of responses to multiple choi... How do they solve it? An insight into the learners approach to the mechanism of physics problem solving 2011-12-28T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/79072L74U0d15b07605207475beb3796d4e147230 ARTICLES ARTICLES http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/26073L8aE1912a0f30460259e96fbc004f308bbd1 The aim of this study was to explore the gender difference in terms of the way that students represent their knowledge when solving a physics problem collaboratively. This four-week-long empirical study was conducted in a high school in Shanghai. It consisted of one week of regular classroom instruc... Gender difference in graphical representations in collaborative problem solving in physics 2010-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. article Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research http://prst-per.aps.org/accepted/Y/26073L8aE1912a0f30460259e96fbc004f308bbd1 ARTICLES ARTICLES