209 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
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18 papers
Beyond teaching methods: highlighting physics faculty's strengths and agency
Linda E. Strubbe, Adrian M. Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan +1
Much work in physics education research (PER) characterizes faculty teaching practice in terms of whether faculty use specific named PER-based teaching methods, either with fidelit…
PhysPort use and growth: Supporting physics teaching with research-based resources since 2011
Sarah B. McKagan, Linda E. Strubbe, Lyle J. Barbato +3
PhysPort (www.physport.org) has become the go-to place for physics faculty to learn to apply research-based teaching and assessment in their classrooms. Usage has doubled every two…
Best Practices for Administering Attitude and Beliefs Surveys
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B McKagan, Eleanor C Sayre
Physics faculty care about their students learning physics content. In addition, they usually hope that their students will learn some deeper lessons about thinking critically and…
Resource Letter RBAI-2: Research-based assessment instruments: Beyond physics topics
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C Sayre +1
This Resource Letter provides a guide to research-based assessment instruments (RBAIs) for physics and astronomy classes, but goes beyond physics and astronomy topics to include: a…
GW170817 event rules out general relativity in favor of vector gravity
Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Robert C. Hilborn
The observation of gravitational waves by the three LIGO-Virgo interferometers allows the examination of the polarization of gravitational waves. Here we analyze the binary neutron…
GW170814: Gravitational wave polarization analysis
Robert C. Hilborn
To determine the polarization character of gravitational waves, we use strain data from the GW170814 binary black hole coalescence event detected by the three LIGO-Virgo observator…
Gravitational waves without general relativity: A tutorial
Robert C. Hilborn
This tutorial leads the reader through the details of calculating the properties of gravitational waves from orbiting binaries, such as two orbiting black holes. Using analogies wi…
Resource Letter: RBAI-1: Research-based Assessment Instruments in Physics and Astronomy
Adrian Madsen, Sam McKagan, Eleanor C Sayre
This resource letter provides a guide to research-based assessment instruments (RBAIs) of physics and astronomy content. These are standardized assessments that were rigorously dev…
Secondary Analysis of Teaching Methods in Introductory Physics: a 50k-Student Study
Joshua Von Korff, Benjamin Archibeque, K. Alison Gomez +6
Physics education researchers have developed many evidence-based instructional strategies to enhance physics students' conceptual learning. These strategies have historically been…
Women in physics in the United States: recruitment and retention
Nina Abramzon, Patrice Benson, Edmund Bertschinger +15
Initiatives to increase the number, persistence, and success of women in physics in the US reach pre-teen girls through senior women. Programs exist at both the local and national…
Research-based assessment affordances and constraints: Perceptions of physics faculty
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Mathew "Sandy" Martinuk +2
To help faculty use research-based materials in a more significant way, we learn about their perceived needs and desires and use this information to suggest ways for the Physics Ed…
Energy conservation in dissipative processes: Teacher expectations and strategies associated with imperceptible thermal energy
Abigail R. Daane, Sarah B. McKagan, Stamatis Vokos +1
Research has demonstrated that many students and some teachers do not consistently apply the conservation of energy principle when analyzing mechanical scenarios. In observing elem…
Personas as a Powerful Methodology to Design Targeted Professional Development Resources
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C. Sayre +2
Scaling and sustaining educational innovations is a common problem in the learning sciences. Professional development resources around educational innovations that are personalized…
Best Practices for Administering Concept Inventories
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C. Sayre
There are a plethora of concept inventories in physics available for faculty to use, but it is not always clear exactly why you would use these tests, or how you should administer…
How physics instruction impacts students' beliefs about learning physics: A meta-analysis of 24 studies
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C. Sayre
In this meta-analysis, we synthesize the results of 24 studies using the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) and the Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX…
Selection, Generalization, and Theories of Cause in Case-Oriented Physics Education Research
Amy D. Robertson, Sarah B. McKagan, Rachel E. Scherr
Case-oriented physics education research - which seeks to refine and develop theory by linking that theory to cases - incorporates distinct practices for selecting data for analysi…
Gender gap on concept inventories in physics: what is consistent, what is inconsistent, and what factors influence the gap?
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C. Sayre
We review the literature on the gender gap on concept inventories in physics. Across studies of the most commonly used mechanics concept inventories, the Force Concept Inventory (F…
What Should be the Role of Field Energy in Introductory Physics Courses?
Robert Hilborn
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas gives the concept of field energy a prominent role in the physical sciences sections of its…