Likert-style surveys are a widely used research instrument to assess respondents'
preferences, beliefs, or experiences. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate how …

The Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA) is a multiple-choice instrument
commonly used to measure introductory undergraduate students' conceptual understanding …

The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) is a popular multiple-choice instrument used to measure
a student's conceptual understanding of Newtonian mechanics. Recently, a network analytic …

One expected outcome of physics instruction is for students to be capable of relating
physical concepts to multiple mathematical representations. In quantum mechanics (QM) …

Learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is often challenging
due to the abstract and counterintuitive nature of some concepts. Computer-based learning …

Concept inventories are commonly used tools in physics education research (PER) for
evaluating teaching methods. Student responses to concept inventories have been studied …

This work is the fourth of a series of papers applying multidimensional item response theory
(MIRT) to widely used physics conceptual assessments. This study applies MIRT analysis …

This article presents a systematic literature review (SLR) on concept understanding in
physics learning. The method used in reviewing the literature is the SLR and PRISMA …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum
Education through Research.] Instructors teaching upper-division quantum mechanics have …

Social network analysis (SNA) has been gaining traction as a technique for quantitatively
studying student collaboration. We analyze networks, constructed from student self-reports …