S. Tunstall, A. Nair, K. Hinko, P. Irving, and V. Sawtelle, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 392-395.
Diffusion and osmosis are central concepts in biology that explain mechanisms of passive transport. While biology education research has documented significant student struggles with…
S. Van den Eynde, B. Schermerhorn, J. Deprez, M. Goedhart, J. Thompson, and M. De Cock, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 16 (1), 010114 (2020).
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in conceptual blending in physics and mathematics education research as a theoretical framework to study student reasoning. In…
B. Geller, J. Gouvea, V. Sawtelle, and C. Turpen, International Conference of the Learning Sciences , 2, 1142-1146 (2014).
This article unpacks an episode in which a case study student in an Introductory Physics for Life Scientists (IPLS) course experiences positive and negative affect coupled to sources…
B. Dreyfus, B. Geller, D. Meltzer, and V. Sawtelle, Am. J. Phys., 83 (1), 5-21 (2014).
This Resource Letter draws on discipline-based education research from physics, chemistry, and biology to collect literature on the teaching of thermodynamics and statistical…
