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Christopher Wheatley; James Wells; John Stewart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA) is a multiple-choice instrument commonly used to measure introductory undergraduate students' conceptual understanding of electricity and magnetism. This study used a network analysis technique called modified module analysis-partial (MMA-P) to identify clusters of correlated responses, also…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Energy, Magnets, Undergraduate Students
Eder Hernandez; Esmeralda Campos; Pablo Barniol; Genaro Zavala – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Electricity and magnetism are fundamentally interconnected, as represented by the symmetry in Maxwell's equations. Much of the research on Gauss's and Ampere's laws has focused on their application in calculating electric or magnetic fields. However, there remains a significant gap in the literature in exploring these laws in a broader…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Energy, Magnets, Scientific Principles
Álvaro Suárez; Arturo C. Marti; Kristina Zuza; Jenaro Guisasola – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
We investigate learning difficulties among second-year students in electromagnetism courses when they apply Ampère-Maxwell's law. Using phenomenography, we analyzed written answers from 65 undergraduate physics students to four questions on Ampère's and Ampère-Maxwell's laws. We complemented our research by interviewing 12 students. To design the…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Undergraduate Students, Energy, Magnets
Christoph Hoyer; Raimund Girwidz – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Vector fields are a highly abstract physical concept that is often taught using visualizations. Although vector representations are particularly suitable for visualizing quantitative data, they are often confusing, especially when describing real fields such as magnetic and electric fields, as the vector arrows can overlap. The present study…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Hernandez, Eder; Campos, Esmeralda; Barniol, Pablo; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Electricity and magnetism are closely related phenomena with a well-known symmetry found in Maxwell equations. An essential part of any electricity and magnetism course includes the analysis of different field source distributions through Gauss's and Ampere's laws to compute and interpret different physical quantities, such as electric flux,…
Descriptors: Energy, Magnets, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Campos, Esmeralda; Zuza, Kristina; Guisasola, Jenaro; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division physics students in a Mexican university to learn how students independently recognize the electric field's main characteristics in the electric field lines diagram and as a source or target representation in conversion processes. We used the theory of registers of semiotic representations…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts
Mason, Andrew J.; McCardell, Jessica M.; White, Philip A.; Colton, John S. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study seeks to determine whether giving an explicit incentive to students in an upper-division first-semester electromagnetism course (EM1), in the form of partial credit for reworking unit exam problems, will improve their problem-solving skills as measured by performance on identical problems on the final exam. Three problems--a primarily…
Descriptors: College Science, Energy, Magnets, Problem Solving
Campos, Esmeralda; Hernandez, Eder; Barniol, Pablo; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
There are studies of students' understanding of the concept of the electric field, the magnetic field, and the use of the superposition principle that have contributed to the creation of both educational strategies and assessment tools. However, the difficulties of these two concepts have not been compared comprehensively. Therefore, this study…
Descriptors: Electronics, Magnets, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts
Christopher J. Fischer; Jennifer A. Delgado; Sarah E. LeGresley; Jessy R. Changstrom – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We used student surveys to assess changes in proficiency with integral calculus, calculus self-efficacy, and physics self-efficacy in a second semester course of introductory physics focused on electricity and magnetism. In addition to tracking the fraction of quantitative problems solved correctly on the calculus proficiency survey, we also used…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Calculus, Self Efficacy
Jianlan Wang; Yuanhua Wang; Beth Thacker; Kyle Wipfli; Stephanie Hart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Learning assistants (LAs) play a pivotal role in transforming traditional physics instruction toward a more inquiry-oriented approach. While empirical evidence supports the effectiveness of LA-involved physics instruction, there is a research gap regarding the specific competencies of LAs that contribute to improved conceptual understanding. One…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physics, Science Instruction, College Students
Hansen, John; Stewart, John – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
This work is the fourth of a series of papers applying multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) to widely used physics conceptual assessments. This study applies MIRT analysis using both exploratory and confirmatory methods to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA) to explore the assessment's structure and to determine a…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Science Tests, Energy, Magnets
White, Gary; Sikorski, Tiffany-Rose; Landay, Justin; Ahmed, Maryam – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Limiting case analysis (LCA) is important to practicing physicists. Yet, there is little concrete guidance for physics educators, and a lack of consensus in the research community about how to help students learn, and learn from, limiting case analysis. In this study, we first review existing literature to find commonalities and variations in how…
Descriptors: Energy, Magnets, Physics, Science Education
Alexis Buzzell; Timothy J. Atherton; Ramón Barthelemy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research.] The modern physics course is a crucial gateway for physics majors as it provides an introduction to concepts beyond the scope of the K-12 education. This study collected 167 modern physics syllabi from 127 U.S. research-intensive…
Descriptors: Physics, Course Content, Science Instruction, Required Courses
Campos, Esmeralda; Hernandez, Eder; Barniol, Pablo; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Identifying students' difficulties in understanding Gauss's and Ampere's laws is important for developing educational strategies that promote an expertlike understanding of the field concept and Maxwell's equations of electromagnetic phenomena. This study aims to analyze and compare students' understanding of symmetry when applying Gauss's and…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Lindsey, Beth A.; Stetzer, MacKenzie R.; Speirs, J. Caleb; Ferm, William N., Jr.; van Hulten, Alexander – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In this paper, we seek to evaluate the extent to which students can follow a deductive reasoning chain when it is presented to them. A great deal of instruction in introductory physics courses is centered on presenting students with a logical argument that starts from first principles and systematically leads to a particular conclusion. This…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation