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Student experiences in a computational physics lab through the lens of physics computational literacy
Computational physics is a key part of what it means to do physics in the twenty-first century. However, upper division computational physics remains a largely understudied area. We set out to understand the experiences of students in an upper division computational physics lab course. To that end we conducted semi-structured interviews with five students at the end of their second of three terms in the course sequence. We then analyzed these interviews utilizing the emerging framework of Physics Computational Literacy. We found that the way students express how they learn computational physics implies they are making tradeoffs between their development of the different aspects of computational literacy. Additionally, we found that how students approach developing social computational literacy varies across individuals, and is driven by unspoken assumptions.
Physics Education Research Conference 2025
Part of the PER Conference series Washington, DC: August 6-7, 2025 Pages 314-319
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=17159">Nearhood, Luke, and Patti C. Hamerski. "Student experiences in a computational physics lab through the lens of physics computational literacy." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, August 6-7, 2025.</a>
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L. Nearhood and P. Hamerski, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, 2025, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17159&DocID=6087).
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L. Nearhood and P. Hamerski, Student experiences in a computational physics lab through the lens of physics computational literacy, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, 2025, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17159&DocID=6087>.
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Nearhood, L., & Hamerski, P. (2025, August 6-7). Student experiences in a computational physics lab through the lens of physics computational literacy. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC. Retrieved December 12, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17159&DocID=6087
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Nearhood, Luke, and Patti C. Hamerski. "Student experiences in a computational physics lab through the lens of physics computational literacy." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, August 6-7, 2025. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17159&DocID=6087 (accessed 12 December 2025).
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Nearhood, Luke, and Patti C. Hamerski. "Student experiences in a computational physics lab through the lens of physics computational literacy." Physics Education Research Conference 2025. Washington, DC: 2025. 314-319 of PER Conference. 12 Dec. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17159&DocID=6087>.
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