3 papers
physics.ed-ph2026
Questioning your brilliance in physics: Differential shifts in fixed mindsets by grade and gender
Fargol Seifollahi, Christian D. Schunn, Chandralekha Singh
Students' domain-specific mindsets and their beliefs about their capacity to improve through effort play a crucial role in shaping their experiences and decisions to persist in STE…
physics.ed-ph2026
The Gendered Cost of Lower Grades: Women's Physics Perceived Recognition and Identity Suffer Disproportionately If They Earn Less Than A Grade
Jaya Shivangani Kashyap, Christian D. Schunn, Chandralekha Singh
Perceptions of disciplinary recognition and identity can be shaped by various forms of feedback and experiences. Here we focus on the potential effects of course grades on the perc…
physics.ed-ph2025
Investigation of student and faculty problem solving: An example from quantum mechanics
Alexandru Maries, Ryan Sayer, Chandralekha Singh
We describe a study focusing on students' and faculty members' reasoning about problems of differing cognitive complexity related to the double-slit experiment (DSE) with single pa…