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20222025
most citedAI and the FCI: Can ChatGPT Project an Understanding of Introductory Physics?

37 citations · 72 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.ed-ph2025

Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world

Yossi Ben-Zion, Turhan K. Carroll, Colin G. West +2

This study investigates the impact of a novel application of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in physics instruction: engaging students in prompting, refining, and validatin…

physics.ed-ph2025★ 6 cited

Landscape of Quantum Information Science and Engineering Education: From Physics Foundations to Interdisciplinary Frontiers

A. R. Piña, Shams El-Adawy, Mike Verostek +8

Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) is rapidly gaining interest from those within many disciplines and higher education needs to adapt to the changing landscape. Alt…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 8 cited

Coronal Heating as Determined by the Solar Flare Frequency Distribution Obtained by Aggregating Case Studies

James Paul Mason, Alexandra Werth, Colin G. West +999

Flare frequency distributions represent a key approach to addressing one of the largest problems in solar and stellar physics: determining the mechanism that counter-intuitively he…

physics.ed-ph2023★ 17 cited

Advances in apparent conceptual physics reasoning in GPT-4

Colin G. West

ChatGPT is built on a large language model trained on an enormous corpus of human text to emulate human conversation. Despite lacking any explicit programming regarding the laws of…

physics.ed-ph2023★ 37 cited

AI and the FCI: Can ChatGPT Project an Understanding of Introductory Physics?

Colin G. West

ChatGPT is a groundbreaking ``chatbot"--an AI interface built on a large language model that was trained on an enormous corpus of human text to emulate human conversation. Beyond i…

physics.ed-ph2022★ 3 cited

Lessons for instructor-student interactions in physics from the world of improvisational theater

Colin G. West

A considerable share of the literature on physics education and on education more broadly focuses on the principles which should guide the design of courses and of classroom activi…

physics.ed-ph2022★ 1 cited

Student-created physics problems as an independent and equitable assessment tool

Bruce A. Schumm, Joy Ishii, Colin G. West

Traditional high-stakes summative assessments--timed, in-class exams accounting for a large percentage of the term's overall grade--have often received criticism from the education…