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Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels
Alexandru Maries, Mary Jane Brundage, Chandralekha Singh
The Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) is a multiple-choice survey that contains a variety of electricity and magnetism concepts from Coulomb's law to Faraday's…
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…
Helping students apply superposition principle in problems involving spherical, cylindrical and planar charge distributions
Jing Li, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
We describe student difficulties in applying the superposition principle in combination with Gauss's law. We addressed these difficulties by developing a tutorial that uses guided…
Helping students become proficient problem solvers Part I: A brief review
Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
Understanding issues involved in expertise in physics problem solving is important for helping students become good problem solvers. In part 1 of this article, we summarize the res…
Progression in self-efficacy, interest, identity, sense of belonging, perceived recognition and effectiveness of peer interaction of physics majors and comparison with non-majors and Ph.D. students
Kyle Whitcomb, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
The importance of science beliefs such as self-efficacy, interest, identity, sense of belonging, perceived recognition and effectiveness of peer interaction in science education ha…
Helping students become proficient problem solvers Part II: An example from waves
Chandralekha Singh, Alexandru Maries
Helping students become proficient problem-solvers is one of the primary goals of physics courses. In part 1 of this article, we summarized the vast research on problem-solving rel…