Welcome to The Physics Education Research Laboratory
Our interests include
- how students learn physics
- student understanding of specific physics concepts
- the use of mathematics in physics learning
- curriculum development and dissemination
- models and mechanisms of human reasoning
- teacher professional development
Recent activities
- investigating student understanding of the interface between mathematics and physics
- research and curriculum development in upper-division thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
- developing and disseminating the Intermediate Mechanics Tutorials
- developing and disseminating a course on Intuitive Quantum Physics
- theory development within the resources framework, a knowledge-in-pieces approach to describing student reasoning
- developing and assessing courses on teaching and learning in physics for future secondary science teachers and university faculty; research on the interplay between specialized content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge in physics
- co-organizing the Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research conference
What’s happening this week
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