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Upcoming Events
Physics Education Research Conference 2025
August 6, 2025 - August 7, 2025
in Washington, DC
AAPT and the PER Topical Group event
PERC 2025 will be held August 6-7, 2025 in Washington, DC. The theme will be "A PER lens on the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology."
News
Announcing the PhysRev PER Statistical Modeling Review Committee
published by Physics Review Physics Education Research on
April 10, 2023
New committee will support high-quality statistical modeling techniques published and/or referenced in PhysRev PER. Committee chair and members will serve three-year terms.
PERC 2013 Proceedings Paper Award - finalists and winner
published by PERLOC on
January 30, 2014
The winner of the 2013 PERC Proceedings Paper Award is Content knowledge for teaching energy: An example from middle-school physical science.
Finalist papers included: Students' dynamic geometric reasoning about quantum spin-1/2 states and Development and results from a survey on students' views of experiments in lab classes and research.
Educators explore innovative "theater" as a way to learn physics
published by PERG on
July 23, 2013
New press release: In a study released this week, education researchers found that personifying energy allowed students to grapple with difficult ideas about how energy works.