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Elements of proximal formative assessment in learners' discourse about energy 
  
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B. Harrer, R. Scherr, M. Wittmann, H. Close, and B. Frank, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 203-206.
Proximal formative assessment, the just-in-time elicitation of students' ideas that informs ongoing instruction, is usually associated with the instructor in a formal classroom…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11847&DocID=2698
Conserving energy in physics and society: Creating an integrated model of energy and the second law of thermodynamics 
  
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A. Daane, S. Vokos, and R. Scherr, PERC 2012 Proceedings, 114-117.
The second law of thermodynamics is typically not a central focus either in introductory university physics textbooks or in national standards for secondary education. However, the…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12786&DocID=3315
An investigation of student thinking regarding calorimetry, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics 
  
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This thesis constitutes an investigation into student understanding of concepts in thermal physics in an introductory calculus-based university physics course. Nearly 90% of students…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12337&DocID=3068
They Still Remember What I Never Taught Them: Student Understanding of Entropy 
  
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M. Loverude, PERC 2012 Proceedings, 266-269.
As part of an ongoing project to examine student learning in upper-division courses in thermal and statistical physics, we have examined student reasoning about the approach of…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12830&DocID=3363
Expert reasoning about independent and dependent variables in thermodynamics 
  
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M. Vignal, R. Siegel, P. Emigh, and E. Gire, PERC 2018 Proceedings.
Thermodynamic potentials (or free energies) are different energies that can describe the same system using different sets of independent variables. While the flexibility to consider…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14861&DocID=5008
Analogues in thermodynamics: the Partial Derivative Machine and Legendre transformations 
  
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M. Vignal, C. Manogue, D. Roundy, and E. Gire, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 404-407.
One commonly and persistently difficult topic in thermodynamics is the relationship between the different thermodynamic potentials obtained through Legendre transformations. The…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14656&DocID=4833
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Learning entropy among peers through the lens of coordination class theory 
  
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J. Velasco, L. Buteler, C. Briozzo, and E. Coleoni, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 18 (1), 010127 (2022).
Coordination class theory has proven to be a useful theoretical framework for describing processes of conceptual change in certain physical and mathematical concepts. Its development…
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010127
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Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire 
  
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N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 17 (2), 020119 (2021).
Student learning in upper-division thermal physics has not been studied to the same extent as in other courses like electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. Studies addressing…
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Sources of affect in interdisciplinary sense making 
  
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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…
https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/951
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Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics 
  
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M. Brundage and C. Singh, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 19 (2), 020112 (2023).
This paper discusses the development and validation of the long version of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument called the Survey of Thermodynamic Processes and First and…
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.020112
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