Recent Publications
2009
"Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Biology and Why we Need Them."
W.B. Wood, Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 25, 5.1
(2009); www.annurev.org, 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.24.110707.175306. pdf
"Transforming Upper-Division Quantum Mechanics: Learning Goals and Assessment"
Steve Goldhaber, Steven Pollock, Mike Dubson, Paul Beale and Katherine Perkins, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Measuring Students’ Beliefs about Physics in Saudi Arabia"
H. Alhadlaq1, F. Alshaya1, S. Alabdulkareem1, K. K. Perkins, W. K. Adams, and C.E. Wieman, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Student Perspectives on Using Clickers in Upper-division Physics Courses"
Katherine K. Perkins & Chandra Turpen, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Quantum Interpretations in Modern Physics Instruction"
Charles Baily and Noah D. Finkelstein, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Student Choices when Learning with Computer Simulations"
Noah S. Podolefsky, Wendy K. Adams, and Carl E. Wieman, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Computer simulations to classrooms: tools for change"
Noah S. Podolefsky, Katherine K. Perkins, & Wendy K. Adams, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Learning To Communicate About Science In Everyday Language Through Informal Science Education"
Laurel M. Mayhew and Noah D. Finkelstein, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Promoting Children’s Understanding And Interest In Science Through Informal Science Education"
Jessica E. Bartley, Laurel M. Mayhew, Noah D. Finkelstein, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Towards Understanding Classroom Culture: Students’ Perceptions of Tutorials"
Chandra Turpen, Noah D. Finkelstein and Steven J. Pollock, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Analysis of Former Learning Assistants’ Views on Cooperative Learning"
Kara E. Gray and Valerie K. Otero, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Unpacking Gender Differences in Students’ Perceived Experiences in Introductory Physics"
Lauren E. Kost, Steven J. Pollock and Noah D. Finkelstein, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Tapping into Juniors’ Understanding of E&M: The Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics (CUE) Diagnostic"
Stephanie V. Chasteen and Steven J. Pollock, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"A Research-Based Approach to Assessing Student Learning Issues in Upper-Division Electricity & Magnetism"
Stephanie V. Chasteen and Steven J. Pollock, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Longer term impacts of transformed courses on student conceptual understanding of E&M"
Steven J. Pollock and Stephanie V. Chasteen, PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009). pdf
"Understanding and Teaching Quantum Interpretations in Modern Physics Courses"
Charles Baily and Noah D. Finkelstein, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch, (Submitted, July 2009) pdf
"Effect of a Dynamic Learning Tutorial on Undergraduate Students' Understanding of Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics"
J. Barbera and C. E. Wieman, The Chemical Educator, 14, 45-48 (2009) pdf
"Development of Quantum Perspectives in Modern Physics"
Charles Baily and Noah D. Finkelstein, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch, 5 010106 (2009) pdf
"Characterizing the Gender Gap in Introductory Physics."
L.E. Kost, S.J. Pollock, & N.D. Finkelstein, Phys. Rev. ST PER, 5(1), 010101 (2009). pdf
"A research-based curriculum for teaching the photoelectric effect."
S. B. McKagan, W. Handley, K. K. Perkins and C. E. Wieman, American Journal of Physics 77 87 (2009). pdf
"Instructional Choices and Student Perceptions of Educational Reforms in College Physics: A Case Study of Peer Instruction" Chandra Turpen and Noah Finkelstein, (2009) pdf
"Why peer discussion improves student performance on in-class concept questions." Smith, MK, Wood, WB, Adams, WK, Wieman, C, Knight, JK, Guild, N, and Su, Science, 323(5910):122-4 (2009). link
2008
"The Genetics Concept Assessment: A New Concept Inventory for Gauging Student Understanding of Genetics"
MK Smith, WB Wood, and JK Knight, CBE- Life Sciences Education, 7: 422:430, 2008. pdf
"Students know what physicists believe, but they don’t agree: A study using the CLASS survey."
Kara E. Gray, Wendy K. Adams, Carl E. Wieman, and Katherine K. Perkins, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch, 4, 020106 (2008). pdf
"A Study of Educational Simulations Part I - Engagement and Learning."
W. K. Adams, S. Reid, R. LeMaster, S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins, M. Dubson and C. E. Wieman, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 19(3), 397-419, July 2008. pdf
"A Study of Educational Simulations Part II - Interface Design."
W. K. Adams, S. Reid, R. LeMaster, S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins, M. Dubson and C. E. Wieman, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 19(4), 551-577, October 2008. pdf
"The Persistence of the Gender Gap in Introductory Physics."
L.E. Kost, S.J. Pollock, & N.D. Finkelstein, PERC Proceedings 2008, 139-142, AIP Press (2008). pdf
"Comparing student learning with multiple research-based conceptual surveys: CSEM and BEMA."
Steven J. Pollock, PERC Proceedings 2008, AIP Press (2008). pdf
"Attitudinal gains across multiple universities using the Physics and Everyday Thinking curriculum"
V. Otero and K. Gray, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch, 4, 020104 (2008) pdf
"Pre-service elementary teachers' conceptions of their students' prior knowledge."
V. Otero and M. Nathan, Journal of Research in Science Teaching 45 (4) (2008). pdf
"Transforming Upper-Division Electricity and Magnetism"
Stephanie V. Chasteen and Steven J. Pollock, PERC Proceedings 2008, AIP Press (2008). pdf
"Student Perspectives in Quantum Physics"
Charles Baily and Noah D. Finkelstein, PERC Proceedings 2008, AIP Press (2008). pdf
"Sustaining Educational Reforms in Introductory Physics"
Steven J. Pollock and Noah D. Finkelstein, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch, 4, 010110 (2008) pdf
"Effect of a Dynamic Learning Tutorial on Undergraduate Students' Understanding of Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics"
J. Barbera and C. E. Wieman, The Chemical Educator, (submitted, 2008)
"Patterns of multiple representation use by experts and novices during physics problem solving"
P. Kohl and N.D. Finkelstein, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch. 4, 010111 (2008). Link to PRST
"Preparing Graduate Students to be Educators"
E. Price and N.D. Finkelstein, American Journal of Physics, (in press, anticipated 2008).
"Why we should teach the Bohr model and how to teach it effectively."
S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins and C. E. Wieman, PhysRev: ST Phys Ed. Rsrch. 4, 010103 (2008). pdf
"Developing and Researching PhET simulations for Teaching Quantum Mechanics."
S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins, M. Dubson, C. Malley, S. Reid, R. LeMaster, and C. E. Wieman, American Journal of Physics 76 p.406 (2008). pdf
"A deeper look at student learning of quantum mechanics: the case of tunneling."
S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins, and C. E. Wieman, Phys. Rev. ST Physics Ed. Research 4, 020103 (2008) pdf
"Modifying and Validating the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Use in Chemistry"
J. Barbera, W.K. Adams, C.E. Wieman, and K.K. Perkins, J.Chem.Ed., 85, 1435 (2008) Link to J.Chem.Ed.