... to the functioning of the human brain. Its main assumption is that “the mind combines two or more mental spaces to make sense of linguistic input in new, emergent ways.” This process is called “blending.” From their analyses, they infer that difficulties of students in problem solving might not be due to missing...

... amount to only 36%. Instead, the frequency of the longitudinal shaking model is higher than in previous research (27%), indicating that instruction might have moved students from the entity model towards the correct wave model, but not entirely, thus resulting in a blended model. According to research...

... that participants are not aware of, such as grades or admission patterns. Research settings can support or impede participation. Some settings may be inaccessible for many reasons, including participants not being able to physically enter a space ( Chini et al., 2021 ) or going to locations that might...

... is the process of checking interpretations with participants. A researcher might ask a participant to review research findings and interpretations and provide feedback on whether the findings and descriptions are accurate and complete. Other strategies for gaining confidence in claims Qualitative...

... are entangled, as argued above, but because centering affect requires allowing students to bring their full selves into the classroom and embracing how affect shapes their coming to know about the physical world. In addition, close attention to affect in learning might point to moments of marginalization...

... the profound nature of the challenge presented by the frame-dependent nature of displacement to student learning of Galilean relativity, we once again suspected that a locus of the challenge might lie in even more fundamental concepts and reasoning. Special relativity requires explicit use of events—which...

..., instruction, and equity. We could have just as easily picked other big constructs in PER (e.g., identity, epistemology, affect) and considered what each level might bring to understanding those ideas. We do this to emphasize that each of these levels of analysis brings uniquely valuable insights...

...., 2021 ; and Narasimhan et al., 2022a , 2022b , 2022c ), which add to the number of potential methods that might be used to detect attacks. Another newer direction in cyberphysical systems research (that also is not a typical component of chemical engineering education) is the use of quantum...

... that their findings might be able to stimulate the improvement of the representation of NoS in science textbooks in Indonesia. A meta-curricular approach or framework was present in those studies that focused on the quantity and quality of the presence of the “nature of science” (NoS) in physics textbooks...

... substantially to the writing of lab notes, which are intended to be a stream of consciousness for the experimental activity in the lab. The notes should answer questions about what students are doing, why they are doing it, how does it inform their next step, were there unexpected results, what might those...

... they synergistically advanced his thought ( Nersessian, 1992 ). We suspect that this might be the case as well in meaningful learning of physics and believe that studies that examine these interactions in the context of physics education can provide important insights into the nature of sensemaking in physics and how...

... What difference does it make to think of physics as a human endeavor, rather than as we normally might, as a complex of conceptual insights and principles, predictive theories, experimental machines, and sophisticated technologies? The relevant contrast case is probably not with physics...

..., or the research might be about the informal learning context. Research in informal environments requires careful thought about research design and how to collect informed consent from participants, especially when working in public spaces. The research questions, context, and theoretical framing will all inform...

... to shape our work. But the precise forms of these methods, and our methodologies more generally remain significantly unsettled in tandem with our theoretical foundations. This unsettled state might be discomforting, especially for those of us who were first trained in physics, where we had the benefit...

...) and six of their parents. Of course, the authors acknowledge that there might be some bias here, as the families of children interested in science were probably more likely to volunteer for interviews. Why did the majority of Black students not want STEM careers? They were good at science, interested...

... activities to establish a need-to-know about new ideas. Learning progressions research has significantly advanced our knowledge of how students develop understanding of core physics ideas and what meaningful progress toward deep understanding might look like as students grow and develop. Yet, challenges...

... to suffer from the outcome reporting bias and publication bias, meta-analysts can also consult study registries such as these for additional effects to include in their syntheses, effects that might not otherwise be disseminated. The authors' recommendation is for researchers to standardize how they define...

... students in introductory physics classrooms, one might expect TAs' beliefs regarding teaching problem-solving to be influenced by their previous physics instructors. Furthermore, TAs' beliefs about teaching and learning may be influenced by their own experiences as learners and the type of instruction...

... to apply, but accuracy might not be the best. On the other hand, optimization methods consider multiple measures of intensity-voltage data that translate to an optimization problem that could be hard to handle due to the non-linear nature of models. Specifically, for that reason, heuristic methods...

... of methodologies to evaluate the trustworthiness of claims arising from distant areas. In some quarters, there is a feeling that the field is at a crossroads: we might consolidate around a few critical themes or evolve into a set of related sub-disciplines as has been the case with physics itself. Therefore...