Purpose Personas are lifelike characters that are driven by potential or real users' personal
goals and experiences when interacting with a product. Personas support user-centered …

Effective faculty professional development must be participant centered; tailored to the
needs and interests of the faculty who engage in it. In order to better understand those …

PhysPort (www. physport. org) has become the go-to place for physics educators to learn to
apply research-based teaching and assessment in their classrooms. Usage (defined as the …

Informal physics education refers to activities and events centered on engagement with
physics outside the formal classroom. Examples of informal physics activities include public …

Physicists engage with the public to varying degrees at different stages of their careers.
However, their public engagement covers many activities, events, and audiences, making …

OECD education systems place a premium on high-quality teaching and look to strengthen
the attractiveness of the teaching profession in the mid-to long-term. This paper considers if …

Personalized undergraduate research programs can help increase undergraduate students'
participation in research. Personas of undergraduate researchers are a powerful means of …

This research presents an investigation of how students solve physics problems and how
physics instructors approach changes in their teaching. In particular, the first part of this …

To broaden participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
education and continue building research capacity, this dissertation focuses on STEM …

This research presents the investigation of physics students' and physics faculty members'
professional development and a design methodology via which we could best support them …