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Diverse yet consistent: How mathematicians position computational thinking across research and teaching
Jan-Fredrik Olsen, Tor Ole B Odden, Elise Lockwood
Recent research in mathematics education points to an "epistemic clash" when programming and computational thinking (CT) are leveraged alongside more established forms of mathemati…
How Disciplinary Norms Influence Mathematicians' Views of Programming in Undergraduate Mathematics
Jan-Fredrik Olsen, Tor Ole B Odden
Programming is deeply embedded in contemporary mathematical practice, yet its epistemic status in university mathematics teaching remains contested. Little is known about how mathe…
How undergraduate physics students use generative AI for computational modeling
Karl Henrik Fredly, Tor Ole B. Odden, Benjamin M. Zwickl
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is becoming increasingly prevalent and capable in physics, particularly for programming-related tasks. How, then, does genAI affect stude…
Same Activity, Divergent Impacts: Representing Paths Towards Physics Computational Literacy and Physics Identity with Conjecture Mapping-Based Narrative Analysis
Sarah McHale, Tor Ole B. Odden, Ken Heller
Integrating computation into physics teaching is a curricular move that, at present, has been predominately studied for its cognitive impacts. However, if this modality of instruct…
Studying Impact and Intent of Design: Conjecture Mapping for Affect-Centered Analysis
Sarah McHale, Tor Ole B. Odden, Ken Heller
Physics education researchers have argued that authentic physics education includes computation as part of a physics student's training, and many parties have made efforts towards…
How Physics Professors Use and Frame Generative AI Tools
Vidar Skogvoll, Tor Ole Odden
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how physicists teach, learn, and conduct research, yet little is known about how physics faculty are responding to these changes. We interviewed…
A Framework for Deductive Semantic Content Analysis at Scale in Science Education Using Text Embeddings
Jonas Timmann Mjaaland, Markus Fleten Kreutzer, Halvor Tyseng +5
Qualitative content analysis of open-ended survey responses is a commonly used research method in science education. However, traditional coding approaches are often time-consuming…
Physics Computational Literacy: Programming, modeling and collaboration at the journeyman level
Karl Henrik Fredly, Tor Ole B. Odden, Benjamin M. Zwickl
Computation has become an integral part of physics research. However, little is known about how students learn to productively use computation as a tool beyond the introductory lev…
Uncovering shifts in the history of Physics education: a systematic, NLP-based, thematic analysis of articles from The Physics Teacher and Physics Education journals (1966-2019)
Martina Caramaschi, Tor Ole B. Odden
This study explores the thematic evolution of articles in The Physics Teacher and Physics Education journals, over a critical period in modern history, from the Cold War era to the…
How Physics Students Develop Disciplinary Computational Literacy
Tor Ole B. Odden, Benjamin Zwickl
Computation has revolutionized science and is gradually making its way into science teaching and learning. However, we currently lack theoretical frameworks to make sense of how st…
Using Text Embeddings for Deductive Qualitative Research at Scale in Physics Education
Tor Ole B. Odden, Halvor Tyseng, Jonas Timmann Mjaaland +2
We propose a technique for performing deductive qualitative data analysis at scale on text-based data. Using a natural language processing technique known as text embeddings, we cr…
How do we assess computation in physics?
Hannah C. Sabo, Tor Ole B. Odden, Marcos D. Caballero
In recent years, computing has become an important part of the way we teach and learn physics. Teachers, both at high school and college levels, now use computational activities in…
Using Computational Essays to Redistribute Epistemic Agency in Undergraduate Science
Tor Ole B. Odden, Devin Silvia, Anders Malthe-Sørenssen
This article reports on a study investigating how computational essays can be used to redistribute epistemic agency--cognitive control and responsibility over one's own learning--t…
What does it mean to "make sense" of physics?
Tor Ole B. Odden
What does it mean to "make sense" of physics? It's not a simple question. Most people have an intuitive feeling for when things do (or do not) make sense to them. But, putting this…
Thematic Analysis of 18 Years of PERC Proceedings using Natural Language Processing
Tor Ole B. Odden, Alessandro Marin, Marcos D. Caballero
We have used an unsupervised machine learning method called Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to thematically analyze all papers published in the Physics Education Research Confere…
Physics Computational Literacy: An Exploratory Case Study Using Computational Essays
Tor Ole B. Odden, Elise Lockwood, Marcos D. Caballero
Computation is becoming an increasingly important part of physics education. However, there are currently few theories of learning that can be used to help explain and predict the…
Computational Essays: An Avenue for Scientific Creativity in Physics
Tor Ole B. Odden, Marcos D. Caballero
Computation holds great potential for introducing new opportunities for creativity and exploration into the physics curriculum. At the University of Oslo we have begun development…
Computational Essays in the Physics Classroom
Tor Ole B. Odden, John Burk
Writing and argumentation are critical to both professional physics and physics education. However, the skill of making an extended argument in writing is often overlooked in physi…
How computation can facilitate sensemaking about physics: A case study
Odd Petter Sand, Tor Ole B. Odden, Christine Lindstrøm +1
We present a case study featuring a first-year bio-science university student using computation to solve a radioactive decay problem and interpret the results. In a semi-structured…
Recurring questions that sustain the sensemaking frame
Tor Ole B. Odden, Rosemary S. Russ
Many physics instructors aim to support student sensemaking in their classrooms. However, this can be challenging since instances of sensemaking tend to be short-lived, with studen…