There is a large variety of goals instructors have for laboratory courses, with different
courses focusing on different subsets of goals. An often implicit, but crucial, goal is to …

Physics education research is replete with observations and proposed explanations for
gender disparities in physics. In this work, we operationalize a definition for equity as …

The rapid transition to remote teaching in the spring of 2020 posed particular challenges for
laboratory courses, which often involve students working hands-on with equipment in …

With the adoption of instructional laboratories that require students to make their own
decisions, there is a need to better understand students' activities as they make sense of …

Understanding social interactions among students comprises a rich area of physics
education research. Here we focus on the social interactions in introductory physics …

While uncertainty is inherent to doing science, it is often excluded from science instruction,
especially postsecondary chemistry instruction. There are a variety of barriers to infusing …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] Identifying student ideas about particular physics topics is one of the earliest …

In undergraduate research settings, students are likely to encounter anomalous data, that is,
data that do not meet their expectations. Most of the research that directly or indirectly …

As physics laboratory courses (labs) transition from traditional, model-verifying activities to
discovery-based investigations, it becomes crucial to understand the role of the instructor in …

Resources theory assumes that resource activation is context sensitive, and that an
important dimension of context is the question students are answering. The context …