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Emerging STEM education researchers' positioning and perception of discipline-based education research
Shams El-Adawy, Cydney Alexis, Eleanor C. Sayre
Various motivations bring researchers to discipline-based education research (DBER), but there is little research on their conceptualization of and navigation into this new-to-them…
Emerging Physics Education Researchers' Growth in Professional Agency: Case Study
Shams El-Adawy, Scott V. Franklin, Eleanor C. Sayre
Improving the physics enterprise to broaden participation in physics is one of the main goals of the physics education research community. Many classically trained physics faculty…
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners
Shams El-Adawy, Alexandra C. Lau, Eleanor C. Sayre +1
Physicists engage with the public to varying degrees at different stages of their careers. However, their public engagement covers many activities, events, and audiences, making th…
Case Study: Context Interactions & Physics Faculty's Professional Development
Shams El-Adawy, Tra Huynh, Mary Bridget Kustusch +1
This paper investigates the interactions between context and professional development of physics instructors in a case study of two physics faculty. A phenomenological-case study a…
What do equitable physics lab groups look like in light of inchargeness?
Sophia M. Jeon, Eleanor C. Sayre, N. G. Holmes
In physics labs, students experience a wide range of equitable and inequitable interactions. We developed a methodology to characterize different lab groups in terms of their bid e…
Positioning in groups: The roles of expertise and being in charge
Tra Huynh, Amali Priyanka Jambuge, Hien Khong +2
Inchargeness is associated with one's authority in driving the activity in collaboration. We study how inchargeness changes within a collaborative group when its members have diffe…
Undergraduate Researcher Personas
Tra Huynh, Adrian M Madsen, Eleanor C Sayre
Personalized undergraduate research programs can help increase undergraduate students' participation in research. Personas of undergraduate researchers are a powerful means of enca…
Teacher Noticing and Shifting of Student Epistemic Framing
Christopher A. F. Hass, Qing X. Ryan, Eleanor C Sayre
Through a case study, we demonstrate that teachers can tacitly notice student epistemic framing, and that this noticing can prompt instructor action which tips student framing. Our…
Beyond teaching methods: highlighting physics faculty's strengths and agency
Linda E. Strubbe, Adrian M. Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan +1
Much work in physics education research (PER) characterizes faculty teaching practice in terms of whether faculty use specific named PER-based teaching methods, either with fidelit…
Blending of Conceptual Physics and Mathematical Signs
Tra Huynh, Eleanor C Sayre
Mathematics is the language of science. Fluent and productive use of mathematics requires one to understand the meaning embodied in mathematical symbols, operators, syntax, etc., w…
Investigating students seriousness during selected conceptual inventory surveys
David P Waters, Dragos Amarie, Rebecca A Booth +2
Conceptual inventory surveys are routinely used in education research to identify student learning needs and assess instructional practices. Students might not fully engage with th…
PhysPort use and growth: Supporting physics teaching with research-based resources since 2011
Sarah B. McKagan, Linda E. Strubbe, Lyle J. Barbato +3
PhysPort (www.physport.org) has become the go-to place for physics faculty to learn to apply research-based teaching and assessment in their classrooms. Usage has doubled every two…
Best Practices for Administering Attitude and Beliefs Surveys
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B McKagan, Eleanor C Sayre
Physics faculty care about their students learning physics content. In addition, they usually hope that their students will learn some deeper lessons about thinking critically and…
Resource Letter RBAI-2: Research-based assessment instruments: Beyond physics topics
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C Sayre +1
This Resource Letter provides a guide to research-based assessment instruments (RBAIs) for physics and astronomy classes, but goes beyond physics and astronomy topics to include: a…
Studying community development: a network analytical approach
C. A. Hass, Florian Genz, Mary Bridget Kustusch +4
Research shows that community plays a central role in learning, and strong community engages students and aids in student persistence. Thus, understanding the function and structur…
Case Study: Coordinating Among Multiple Semiotic Resources to Solve Complex Physics Problems
Nandana Weliweriya, Eleanor C Sayre, Dean A Zollman
This work examines student meaning-making in undergraduate physics problem-solving. We use a social semiotic perspective to sketch a theoretical framework. The social semiotic appr…
Qualitative Measures of Equity in Small Groups
Ben Archibeque, Mary-Bridget Kustusch, Florian Genz +2
We investigate the utility of two qualitative measures of equity. Our data are videos of groups of first-generation and Deaf or hard-of-hearing students in a pre-matriculation univ…
Blending Mathematical and Physical Negative-ness
Tra Huynh, Eleanor C Sayre
Expressing physics problems in the form of a mathematical model is one of the most important stages in the problem-solving process. Particularly in algebraic symbolization, underst…
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…
Quantitative Measures of Equity in Small Groups
Benjamin Archibeque, Florian Genz, Maxwell Franklin +2
This project investigates how to quantitatively measure equity in small student groups. We follow several student groups to operationalize how discourse may be equitable or inequit…
Using Social Network Analysis on classroom video data
Katarzyna E. Pomian, Justyna P. Zwolak, Eleanor C. Sayre +2
We propose a novel application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) using classroom video data as a means of quantitatively and visually exploring the collaborations between students.…
Standing fast: Translation among durable representations using evanescent representations in upper-division problem solving
Nandana Weliweriya, Tra Huynh, Eleanor C Sayre
Mastering problem solving requires students to not only understand and apply physics concepts but also employ mathematics and mathematical representations (sketches, diagrams, grap…
Framing Difficulties in Quantum Mechanics
Bahar Modir, John D Thompson, Eleanor C Sayre
Students' difficulties in quantum mechanics may be the result of unproductive framing rather than a fundamental inability to solve the problems or misconceptions about physics cont…
Student and instructor framing in upper-division physics
Deepa N Chari, Hai D Nguyen, Dean A Zollman +1
Upper-division physics students spend much of their time solving problems. In addition to their basic skills and background, their epistemic framing can form an important part of t…