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Exploring Subfield Interest Development in Undergraduate Physics Students through Social Cognitive Career Theory
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Benjamin M. Zwickl
This study aims to understand how undergraduate physics majors develop an interest in specific subfields. We examine interest formation through the lens of Social Cognitive Career…
Analyzing Physics Majors' Specialization Low Interest Using Social Cognitive Career Theory
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Keegan Shea Tonry, Benjamin M. Zwickl
As students pursue a bachelor's degree in physics, they may ponder over which area to specialize in, such as theory, computation, or experiment. Often students develop preferences…
Toward a Longitudinal Multifaceted View of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The perspectives of doing research online
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Benjamin M. Zwickl
In the Summer of 2020, as COVID-19 limited in-person research opportunities and created additional barriers for many students, institutions either canceled or remotely hosted their…
Impact of virtual REU experiences on students' psychosocial gains during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Micah K. Campbell, Benjamin M. Zwickl
In the Summer of 2020, due to COVID-19, institutions either canceled or remotely hosted their Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. We carried out a 16-week longit…
How Physics Textbooks Embed Meaning in the Equals Sign
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Eleanor C. Sayre, Kellianne Kornick +1
Physics as a discipline embeds conceptual meaning about the physical world in mathematical formalism. The meaning associated with mathematical symbols depends on context, and physi…
Student understanding of electric and magnetic fields in materials
Savannah L. Mitchem, Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Eleanor C. Sayre
We discuss the clusters of resources that emerge when upper-division students write about electromagnetic fields in linear materials. The data analyzed for this paper comes from st…