General physics & astronomy
- Invention Activities: A Path to Expertise
James Day & Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC), Wendy Adams (U. Northern Colorado), Carl Wieman & Daniel Schwartz (Stanford)
Physics in Canada, Special Issue on Physics Education Research, 70 (2), in press (2014) - Participating in the Physics Lab: Does Gender Matter?
Natasha Holmes, Ido Roll, and Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Physics in Canada, Special Issue on Physics Education Research, 70 (2), in press (2014) - A “flipped” approach to large-scale first-year labs
Georg Rieger, M. Sitwell, Jim Carolan, & Ido Roll (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Physics in Canada, Special Issue on Physics Education Research, 70 (2), in press (2014) - Preparing students for class: How to get 80% of students reading the textbook before class
Cynthia Heiner (Physics, UBC), Amanda Banet (Zoology & Botany, UBC), & Carl Wieman
American J. Physics, Vol. 82(10), pp. 989-996 (2014) - Interactions between teaching assistants and students boost engagement in physics labs
Jared Stang & Ido Roll (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Physical Review Special Topics -Physics Education Research, 10, 020117 (2014) - Not a magic bullet: the effect of scaffolding on knowledge and attitudes in online simulations
Ido Roll, Adriana Briseno, Nikki Yee, & Ashley Welsh (UBC)
Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, in press (2014) - The usefulness of log based clustering in a complex simulation environment
Samad Kardan, Ido Roll, & Cristina Conati (UBC)
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, in press (2014) - Examinations That Support Collaborative Learning: The Students’ Perspective
Georg Rieger and Cynthia Heiner (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Journal of College Science Teaching, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 41-47 (2014) - Physics Exams that Promote Collaborative Learning
Carl Wieman, Georg Rieger, and Cynthia Heiner (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
The Physics Teacher, 52, pp. 51-53 (January 2014) - Finding Evidence of Transfer with Invention Activities: Teaching the Concept of Weighted Average
James Day, Natasha Holmes, Ido Roll, and Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
2013 PERC Proceedings, pp. 117-120 (2014)
Physics Education Research Conference (PERC), Portland, OR, July 2013 - Doing Science Or Doing A Lab? Engaging Students With Scientific Reasoning During Physics Lab Experiments
Natasha Holmes and Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
2013 PERC Proceedings, pp. 185-188 (2014)
Physics Education Research Conference (PERC), Portland, OR, July 2013 - Making the failure more productive: scaffolding the invention process to improve inquiry behaviors and outcomes in invention activities
Natasha Holmes, James Day, Anthony Park, Doug Bonn, and Ido Roll (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Instructional Science, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 523-538 (2014; pub online Nov 2013) - Evaluating metacognitive scaffolding in guided invention activities
Ido Roll, Natasha Holmes, James Day, & Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Instructional Science, Vol. 40, pp. 691-710 (2012) - Exploring the Solar System with a Human Orrery
Peter Newbury (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
The Physics Teacher (December 2010)
View a video of this activity - Teaching Standard Deviation by Building from Student Invention
James Day, Hiroko Nakahara, and Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
The Physics Teacher, 48 (November 2010)
- Improving Student Attitudes about Learning Science and Student Scientific Reasoning Skills
Douglas Duncan (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, CU) and Leilani Arthurs (Geological Sciences, CU)
Astronomy Education Review, Vol. 11 (1), 010102 (2012) - Development of the Concise Data Processing Assessment
James Day and Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, Vol. 7, 010114 (2011) - Improved Learning in a Large Enrollment Physics Class
Louis Deslauriers, Ellen Schelew, and Carl Wieman (Physics & Astronomy and CWSEI, UBC)
Science, Vol. 332, no. 6031 pp. 862-864 (May 2011) - Learning And Retention of Quantum Concepts with Different Teaching Methods
Louis Deslauriers and Carl Wieman (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, Vol. 7, 010101 (2011)
General upper-division
- Developing Tutorials for Advanced Physics Students: Processes and Lessons Learned
Charles Baily, Michael Dubson, & Steven Pollock (Physics, CU)
2013 PERC Proceedings, pp. 61-64 (2014) - Analytic framework for students’ use of mathematics in upper-division physics
Bethany Wilcox, Marcos Caballero, Daniel Rehn, & Steven Pollock (Physics, CU)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 9, 020119 (2013) - ACER: A Framework on the use of mathematics in upper-division physics,
Marcos D. Caballero, Bethany Wilcox, Rachel Pepper and Steven Pollock (Physics, CU),
PERC Proceedings 2012, AIP Press (2012). - Student Perspectives on Using Clickers in Upper-division Physics Courses
Katherine K. Perkins and Chandra Turpen (Physics, CU)
PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009) - Facilitating Faculty Conversations: Development of Consensus Learning Goals
Rachel Pepper, Stephanie Chasteen, Steven Pollock, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
2011 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1413, pp. 291-294 (2012) - Multiple roles of assessment in upper-division physics course reforms
Steven Pollock, Rachel Pepper, Stephanie Chasteen, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
2011 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1413, pp. 307-310 (2012) - The use of concept tests and peer instruction in upper-division physics
Steven Pollock, Stephanie Chasteen, Michael Dubson, Katherine Perkins
2010 PERC Proceedings, AIP Press - Who Becomes a Physics Major? A Long-term Longitudinal Study Examining the Roles of Pre-college Beliefs about Physics and Learning Physics, Interest, and Academic Achievement
Kathy Perkins and Mindy Gratny (Physics, CU)
2010 PERC Proceedings, AIP Press (Best Paper Award)
Advanced Laboratory
- Incorporating learning goals about modeling into an upper-division physics laboratory experiment
Benjamin Zwickl, Noah Finkelstein, & Heather Lewandowski (Physics, CU)
American J. Physics, Vol. 82(9), pp. 876-882 (2014) - Transforming the advanced lab: Part I - Learning goals
Benjamin Zwickl, Noah Finkelstein, & Heather Lewandowski (Physics, CU)
2011 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1413, pp. 391-394 (2012)
Sophomore Math Methods / Classical Mechanics
- Assessing Student Learning in Middle-Division Classical Mechanics/Math Methods
Marcos Caballero and Steve Pollock (Physics, CU)
2013 PERC Proceedings, pp. 81-84 (2014) - A model for incorporating computation without changing the course: An example from middle-division classical mechanics
Marcos Caballero & Steven Pollock (Physics, CU)
American J. Physics, Vol. 82(3), pp. 231-237 (2014) - Issues and Progress in Transforming a Middle-division Classical Mechanics/Math Methods Course
Steven Pollock, Rachel Pepper, & Alysia Marino (Physics, CU)
2011 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1413, pp. 303-306 (2012)
Junior Quantum Mechanics
- Constructing a Multiple-choice Assessment for Upper-division Quantum Physics from an Open-ended Tool
Homeyra Sadaghiani, John Miller, Steven Pollock, & Daniel Rehn (Physics, CU)
2013 PERC Proceedings, pp. 319-322 (2014) - Faculty Disagreement about the Teaching of Quantum Mechanics
Mike Dubson, Steve Goldhaber, Steve Pollock, and Kathy Perkins (Physics, CU)
2009 PERC Proceedings, AIP Press - Transforming Upper-Division Quantum Mechanics: Learning Goals and Assessment
Steve Goldhaber, Steven Pollock, Mike Dubson, Paul Beale, and Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009)
Junior Electricity & Magnetism
- Multiple-choice Assessment for Upper-division Electricity and Magnetism
Bethany Wilcox & Steven Pollock (Physics, CU)
2013 PERC Proceedings, pp. 365-368 (2014) - Upper-division student understanding of Coulomb's law: Difficulties with continuous charge distributions
Bethany Wilcox, Marcos Caballero, Rachel Pepper, & Steven Pollock (Physics, CU)
2012 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1513, pp. 418-421 (2013) - Research-Based Course Materials and Assessments for Upper-Division Electrodynamics (E&M II)
Charles Baily, Michael Dubson, & Steven Pollock (Physics, CU)
2012 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1513, pp. 54-57 (2013) - Thinking like a physicist: A multi-semester case study of junior-level electricity and magnetism
Stephanie Chasteen, Steven Pollock, Rachel Pepper, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
American J. Physics, Vol. 80, p. 923 (2012) - Transforming the junior level: Outcomes from instruction and research in E&M
Stephanie Chasteen, Steven Pollock, Rachel Pepper, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 8, 020107 (2012) - Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics diagnostic: A conceptual assessment for the junior level
Stephanie Chasteen, Rachel Pepper, Marcos Caballero, Steven Pollock, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 8, 020108 (2012) - Observations on student difficulties with mathematics in upper-division electricity and magnetism
Rachel Pepper, Stephanie Chasteen, Steven Pollock, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, Vol. 8, 010111 (2012) - But Does It Last? Sustaining a Research-Based Curriculum in Upper-Division Electricity & Magnetism
Stephanie Chasteen, Rachel Pepper, Steven Pollock, Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
2011 Physics Education Research Conference (PERC) Proceedings, Vol. 1413, pp. 139-142 (2012) - Teasing out the effect of tutorials via multiple regression
Stephanie Chasteen (Physics, CU)
2011 PERC Proceedings, Vol. 1413, pp. 143-146 (2012) - A Thoughtful Approach to Instruction: Course transformation for the rest of us
Stephanie Chasteen, Katherine Perkins, Paul Beale, Steven Pollock, & Carl Wieman (Physics, CU)
Journal of College Science Teaching, Vol. 40, pp. 24-30 (2011) - Upper-Division Students' Difficulties With Ampere's Law
Colin Wallace and Stephanie Chasteen (Physics, CU)
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, Vol. 6, 020115 (2010) - Our best juniors still struggle with Gauss’s Law: Characterizing their difficulties
Rachel Pepper, Stephanie Chasteen, Steven Pollock, & Katherine Perkins (Physics, CU)
2010 PERC Proceedings, AIP Press - Tapping into Juniors’ Understanding of E&M: The Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics (CUE) Diagnostic
Stephanie V. Chasteen and Steven J. Pollock (Physics, CU)
PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009)
Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, MI (July 2009) - A Research-Based Approach to Assessing Student Learning Issues in Upper-Division Electricity & Magnetism
Stephanie V. Chasteen and Steven J. Pollock (Physics, CU)
PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009) - Longer term impacts of transformed courses on student conceptual understanding of E&M
Steven J. Pollock and Stephanie V. Chasteen (Physics, CU)
PERC Proceedings 2009, AIP Press (2009) - Transforming Upper-Division Electricity and Magnetism
Stephanie V. Chasteen and Steven J. Pollock (Physics, CU)
PERC Proceedings 2008, AIP Press (2008)
Posters and talks
- The Impact of Targeted Learning Goals on Student Attitudes about Experimental Physics
Natasha Holmes, Joss Ives, and Doug Bonn (Physics & Astronomy, UBC)
Physics Education Research Conference (PERC), Minneapolis, MN, July 2014 - Students’ perspectives on pre-class reading assignments
Cynthia Heiner (Physics and Astronomy, UBC) and Amanda Banet (Zoology, UBC)
Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research: Puget Sound (June 2012) - The Role of Metacognition in Learning and Strategies for Developing Student Metacognition: ASTRO 101 as a test‐bed for implementation and assessment
Leilani Arthurs (Geological Sciences, CU) and Douglas Duncan (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, CU)
Geological Society of America Annual Conference (October 2009) - Clickers in Upper Division Courses
Stephanie Chasteen, Kathy Perkins, Steve Pollock, & Mike Dubson (Physics, CU)
AAPT Winter Meeting, Chicago (February 2009)
A complete listing of workshops & talks on clickers & relevant files - Does Taking an Introductory Astronomy Course Increase Student Understanding of the Nature of Science?
Douglas Duncan (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, CU) and Leilani Arthurs (Geological Sciences, CU)
American Astronomy Society Conference (January 2009)