Dissertations & Theses

( Link ) Skill with different representations and multiple representations is highly valued in physics, and prior work has shown that novice physics students can struggle with the representations typically used in solving physics problems. There exists work in PER examining student use of representations and multiple representations, but there...

(Links 1 , 2 , 3 ) The purpose of this report is to summarize the main results from a study to evaluate faculty practices and student attitudes regarding clickers during the Spring 2007 semester at the University of Colorado at Boulder (commonly referred to as “CU”). Adoption of clickers...

( Link ) There are many different ways by which students learn physics and develop beliefs about physics. These range from exams to lectures, from labs to homework. Teachers have beliefs about the ideal content for each of these media to contain, as well as beliefs about what they typically...