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Improving Students' Understanding of Electricity and Magnetism 
  
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J. Li - Thesis
Publication Date: March 20, 2012
Electricity and magnetism are important topics in physics. Research shows that students have many common difficulties in understanding concepts related to electricity and magnetism.…
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Problem solving, scaffolding and learning 
  
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S. Lin - Thesis
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
Helping students to construct understanding of physics concepts and develop good problem solving skills is a central goal in many physics classrooms. This thesis examines students’…
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Perspectives in Quantum Physics: Epistemological, Ontological and Pedagogical 
  
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C. Baily - Thesis
Publication Date: May 11, 2011
A common learning goal for modern physics instructors is for students to recognize a difference between the experimental uncertainty of classical physics and the fundamental…
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Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Mechanics 
  
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G. Zhu - Thesis
Publication Date: May 1, 2011
Learning physics is challenging at all levels. Students’ difficulties in the introductory level physics courses have been widely studied and many instructional strategies have been…
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Student Use of Physics to Make Sense of Incomplete but Functional VPython Programs in a Lab Setting 
  
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S. Weatherford - Thesis
Publication Date: March 23, 2011
Computational activities in Matter & Interactions, an introductory calculus-based physics course, provide students with experience applying a small set of fundamental principles to…
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11184&DocID=3062
Student Understanding of Cross Product Direction and Use of Right-Hand Rules: An Exploration of Representation and Context-Dependence 
  
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M. Kustusch - Thesis
Publication Date: March 23, 2011
Students in introductory physics struggle with vector algebra and cross product direction (CPD). While research into student understanding of vector algebra notes…
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Investigating and Accounting for Physics Graduate Students' Tutorial Classroom Practice 
  
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R. Goertzen - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
Although TAs are responsible for a significant portion of students' instruction at many universities, science TAs and their teaching have not been the focus of a significant amount…
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Development and Validation of a Physics Problem-Solving Assessment Rubric 
  
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J. Docktor - Thesis
Publication Date: September 24, 2009
Problem solving is a complex process that is important for everyday life and crucial for learning physics. Although there is a great deal of effort to improve student problem solving…
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Transfer of Learning from Traditional Optics to Wavefront Aberrometry 
  
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D. McBride - Thesis
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
This research presents an investigation of how students dynamically construct knowledge in a new situation. In particular, this work focuses on the contexts of light and optics, and…
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The Dynamics of Variability in Introductory Physics Students' Thinking: Examples from Kinematics 
  
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B. Frank - Thesis
Publication Date: August 7, 2009
Physics education research has long emphasized the need for physics instruction to address students’ existing intuitions about the physical world as an integral part of learning…
http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/dissertations/Frank/
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