Text-based open-ended questions in academic formative and summative assessments help
students become deep learners and prepare them to understand concepts for a subsequent …

This paper presents a comprehensive synthesis of physics education research at the
undergraduate level. It is based on work originally commissioned by the National …

Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate
Science and Engineering | The National Academies Press Skip to main content Navigate to Help …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

In this paper, we examine student success on three variants of a test item given in different
representational formats (verbal, pictorial, and graphical), with an isomorphic problem …

The purpose of this research was to explore students' problem-solving skills through inquiry-
based learning with PhET simulation, focussed on direct current electricity matter. The …

Abstract Airey, J. 2009. Science, Language and Literacy. Case Studies of Learning in
Swedish University Physics. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Dissertations from the …

In this paper we focus on some of the recent findings of the physics education research
community in the area of multiple representations. The overlying trend with the research is …

External visual representations of chemical entities and processes (chemical
representations) play a critical role in chemical thinking and practice. They support …

In this chapter we discuss the application of social semiotics to the teaching and learning of
university physics. Social semiotics is a broad construct where all communication in a …