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Defining a physics person: Tensions in the identity development of undergraduate women in physics
Laura M. Akesson, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Nancy Holincheck +1
This qualitative study explores how undergraduate women define what it means to be a physics person alongside how they describe their own physics identity. Our team analyzed 120 su…
Role of Mentorship, Career Conceptualization, and Leadership in Developing Women's Physics Identity and Belonging
Jessica L. Rosenberg, Nancy Holincheck, Kathryn Fernández +4
The percentage of women receiving bachelors degrees in physics in the U.S. lags well behind that of men, and women leave the major at higher rates. Achieving equity in physics will…
"Classical-ish": Negotiating the boundary between classical and quantum particles
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Erin Ronayne Sohr, Ayush Gupta +1
Quantum mechanics can seem like a departure from everyday experience of the physical world, but constructivist theories assert that learners build new ideas from their existing one…
'Because math': Epistemological stance or defusing social tension in QM?
Erin Ronayne Sohr, Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Ayush Gupta +1
In collaborative small-group work, physics students need to both manage social conflict and grapple with conceptual and epistemological differences. In this paper, we document seve…
Applying Conceptual Blending to Model Coordinated Use of Multiple Ontological Metaphors
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Ayush Gupta, Edward F. Redish
Energy is an abstract science concept, so the ways that we think and talk about energy rely heavily on ontological metaphors: metaphors for what kind of thing energy is. Two common…
Resource Letter TTSM-1: Teaching thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in introductory physics, chemistry, and biology
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Benjamin D. Geller, David E. Meltzer +1
This Resource Letter draws on discipline-based education research from physics, chemistry, and biology to collect literature on the teaching of thermodynamics and statistical mecha…