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Making and Breaking Bones: Learning Physics through Engineering Design 
  
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A. Hansen and D. Harlow, PERC 2016 Proceedings, 136-139.
Eighth grade students in an engineering course designed and tested prosthetic bones for use in a movie. Bone design required physics content to be integrated with knowledge of math,…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14212&DocID=4565
Using disciplinary perspectives to refine conceptions of the “real world” 
  
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A. Nair, P. Irving, and V. Sawtelle, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 268-271.
It has been reported that students often leave the introductory physics classroom believing that physics is less connected to the real world than when they entered. In this paper we…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14622&DocID=4799
Prelecture Questions and Conceptual Testing in Undergraduate Condensed Matter Courses 
  
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C. Porter, A. Bogdan, and A. Heckler, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 320-323.
Prelecture questions have long been used in a variety of courses within STEM to motivate prelecture reading and to help class time be used more efficiently. It is difficult to…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14634&DocID=4811
How computation can facilitate sensemaking about physics: A case study 
  
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O. Sand, T. Odden, C. Lindstrøm, and M. Caballero, PERC 2018 Proceedings.
We present a case study featuring a first-year bio-science university student using computation to solve a radioactive decay problem and interpret the results. In a semi-structured…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14850&DocID=4997
SEI: Modern Physics - Course Structure and Quantum Learning Goals 
  
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C. Baily, S. McKagan, K. Perkins, and C. Wieman - Online Resource
This page provides the structure, syllabus, and a list of learning goals for a PER-based Modern Physics Course. The learning goals include expectations for student understanding of…
https://physicscourses.colorado.edu/EducationIssues/ModernPhysics/downlo...
Exploring Student Understanding of Atoms and Radiation with the Atom Builder Simulator 
  
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A. Johnson and A. Hafele, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 177-180.
Learning about radiation requires understanding the general structure of atoms, but many college physics students do not have such understandings. In our efforts to develop inquiry…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12740&DocID=3285
Students’ use of resources in understanding solar cells 
  
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A. Richards and E. Etkina, PERC 2012 Proceedings, 330-333.
We use the framework of conceptual and epistemological resources to investigate how students construct understanding of solar cells - a complex modern physics topic that requires…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12846&DocID=3378
Perspectives in Quantum Physics: Epistemological, Ontological and Pedagogical 
  
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A common learning goal for modern physics instructors is for students to recognize a difference between the experimental uncertainty of classical physics and the fundamental…
https://www.colorado.edu/per/sites/default/files/attached-files/charlesb...
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Development of quantum perspectives in modern physics 
  
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C. Baily and N. Finkelstein, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 5 (1), 010106 (2009).
Variations in student epistemic and ontological commitments can be characterized, and many students have preferences for realist interpretations of quantum phenomena. Introductory…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11302&DocID=2321
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Development and Validation of the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory 
  
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E. Bardar, E. Prather, K. Brecher, and T. Slater, Astron. Educ. Rev., 5 (2), 103-113 (2007).
This article describes the development and validation of the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory (LSCI), a 26-item diagnostic test designed (1) to measure students' conceptual…
https://doi.org/10.3847/AER2006020
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