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[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] Research in physics education has contributed substantively to improvements in the…
J. Speirs, R. Leuteritz, T. Lê, R. Deng, and S. Ell, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 19 (1), 010108 (2023).
Even after research-based instruction, students who demonstrate the ability to assemble relevant conceptual knowledge on one physics question may have difficulty assembling that same…
A. Robertson, L. Goodhew, P. Heron, and R. Scherr, Phys. Teach., 60 (4), 254-257 (2022).
Perhaps the most commonly cited student idea about forces in the literature is the notion of an impetus force, defined as the “belief that there is a force inside a moving object…
T. Huynh, A. Alesandrini, L. Bauman, O. Sorby, and A. Robertson, PERC 2023 Proceedings, 151-156.
In this paper, we identify some of the connections students make between force ideas and kinematics concepts, in their responses to kinematics questions. We coded 887 written…
