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Using the Energy and Momentum Conceptual Survey to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels

Mary Jane Brundage, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh

The Energy and Momentum Conceptual Survey (EMCS) is a multiple-choice survey that contains conceptual problems involving a variety of energy and momentum concepts covered in a typi…

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Gender Inequities Throughout STEM: Compared to Men, Women with Significantly Higher Grades Drop STEM Majors

Alexandru Maries, Kyle Whitcomb, Chandralekha Singh

Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them…

physics.ed-ph2020

The impact of stereotype threat on gender gap in introductory physics

Alexandru Maries, Nafis I Karim, Chandralekha Singh

Many prior studies have found a gender gap between male and female students' performance on conceptual assessments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and the Conceptual Surv…

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Teaching assistants' performance at identifying common introductory student difficulties revealed by the conceptual survey of electricity and magnetism

Nafis I Karim, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh

We discuss research involving the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) to evaluate one aspect of the pedagogical content knowledge of teaching assistants (TAs): th…

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Do students benefit from drawing productive diagrams themselves while solving introductory physics problems? The case of two electrostatic problems

Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh

An appropriate diagram is a required element of a solution building process in physics problem solving and it can transform a given problem into a representation that is easier to…

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Is agreeing with a gender stereotype correlated with the performance of female students in introductory physics?

Alexandru Maries, Nafis I. Karim, Chandralekha Singh

Several prior studies in introductory physics have found a gender gap on conceptual assessments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and the Conceptual Survey of Electricity a…