Background Enacting STEM education reform is a complex task and there are a variety of
approaches that might be selected by change agents. When working on an institutional …

Like learning analytics, physics education research is a relatively young field that draws on
perspectives from multiple disciplines. Network analysis has an even more heterodox …

Surveys have long been used in physics education research to understand student
reasoning and inform course improvements. However, to make analysis of large sets of …

Despite rapid growth of quantum information science (QIS) workforce development
initiatives, perceived lack of agreement among faculty on core content has made prior …

Instructors and researchers often use research-based assessments to identify the impact of
instructional activities. These investigations often focus on issues of diversity, equity, and …

There is a plethora of concept inventories available for faculty to use, but it is not always
clear exactly why you would use these tests, or how you should administer them and …

One desired outcome of introductory physics instruction is that students will develop facility
with reasoning quantitatively about physical phenomena. Little research has been done …

The Survey of Physics Reasoning on Uncertainty Concepts in Experiments (SPRUCE) was
designed to measure students' proficiency with measurement uncertainty concepts and …

Even graduate physics students have many misconceptions about basic wave optics
phenomena. This suggests that there is much room for improvement of the traditional wave …

Over the last decade, the “gender gap” in physics conceptual inventory scores has been
extensively studied by the physics education research community. Researchers have …