Theories of scientific and technological change view discovery and invention as
endogenous processes,, wherein previous accumulated knowledge enables future progress …

Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on interest-based engagement,
examining how and why people are engaged in activities without relying on extrinsic …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] Qualitative research methods have provided key insights in physics education …

Background Formative assessments are needed to enable monitoring how student
knowledge develops throughout a unit. Constructed response items which require learners …

The Brain Connectome Project has made significant strides in uncovering the structural
connections within the brain on various levels. This has led to the question of how brain …

I briefly survey several fascinating topics in networks and nonlinearity. I highlight a few
methods and ideas, including several of personal interest, that I anticipate to be especially …

Recent advances in network science have resulted in two distinct research directions aimed
at augmenting and enhancing representations for complex networks. The first direction, that …

This commentary discusses how research approaches from Cognitive Network Science can
be of relevance to research in the field of Learning Analytics, with a focus on modelling the …

Conceptual associations influence how human memory is structured: Cognitive research
indicates that similar concepts tend to be recalled one after another. Semantic network …

Theoretical constructs, such as the information gap theory and compression progress theory,
seek to explain how humans practice curiosity. According to the former, curiosity is the drive …