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A multi-agent AI classroom based on dual-process reasoning hazards: a pilot with prospective physics teachers
Eugenio Tufino
Responding productively, in real time, to the reasoning students actually produce is among the most difficult and slowest to acquire of the skills physics teachers develop, and pro…
Embodied inquiry with AI as facilitator: an exploratory case study
Eugenio Tufino, Paola Damiani
Generative AI is entering science education at a time when the embodied education community is asking what such systems cannot do. Rather than asking whether AI can understand the…
Performance and failure modes of AI chatbots on a novel concept inventory on relativity in classical mechanics
Eugenio Tufino, Caterina Giovanzana, Andrea Zamboni +2
AI chatbots are increasingly used by students as study tools in physics, raising practical questions about their reliability on conceptual tasks. Existing evaluations of large lang…
Demystifying the oracle: A "20 Questions" game to promote AI ethics and literacy
Eugenio Tufino
As Generative AI becomes a key component in physics education, a significant ethical challenge has emerged: the tendency of students to anthropomorphize Large Language Models (LLMs…
Creating a customisable Socratic AI physics tutor
Eugenio Tufino, Bor Gregorcic
This paper explores role engineering as an effective paradigm for customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) into specialized AI tutors for physics education. We demonstrate this met…
NotebookLM as a Socratic physics tutor: Design and preliminary observations of a RAG-based tool
Eugenio Tufino
This study explores NotebookLM, a Google Gemini - powered AI platform that integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Socratic tutor for physics education. In this implem…
Exploring Large Language Models (LLMs) through interactive Python activities
Eugenio Tufino
This paper presents an approach to introduce physics students to the basic concepts of Large Language Models (LLMs) using Python-based activities in Google Colab. The teaching stra…
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses
Gayle Geschwind, Micol Alemani, Michael F. J. Fox +3
Physics Education Research (PER) is a global endeavour, with a wealth of work performed at a variety of institutions worldwide. However, results from research into undergraduate ph…
Using Jupyter Notebooks to foster computational skills and professional practice in an introductory physics lab course
Eugenio Tufino, Stefano Oss, Micol Alemani
In this paper, we detail the integration of Python data analysis into a first-year physics laboratory course, a task accomplished without significant alterations to the existing co…
Exploring active learning in physics with ISLE-based modules in high school
Eugenio Tufino, Pasquale Onorato, Stefano Oss
This study presents a case study of active learning within the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE), using the iOLab digital devices. We designed a pilot lab format to…
Evaluation of the effectiveness of an introductory mechanics Lab with Arduino and smartphone
Eugenio Tufino, Giovanni Organtini
This article describes the reform of a physics undergraduate lab course by introducing new technologies such as Arduino microcontroller and smartphone, to help students experience…
Integrating Python data analysis in an existing introductory laboratory course
Eugenio Tufino, Stefano Oss, Micol Alemani
In this article we describe how we successfully incorporated data analysis in Python in a first-year laboratory course without significantly altering the course structure and witho…
Two simple experiments using FFT with digital devices in the introductory physics laboratory
Eugenio Tufino, Luigi Gratton, Stefano Oss
We propose two experiments suited for high school and/or undergraduate physics laboratory which are aimed to the discovery of the practical meaning and usefulness of the FFT analys…