Anxiety is increasing in prevalence and becoming a major concern for American colleges
and universities. Notably, the push to transition college science courses from traditional …

The proliferation of remote laboratory instruction increased substantially during the recent
global pandemic. Many physics departments implemented this rapid transition without the …

Engaging in interactions with peers is important for student learning. Many studies have
quantified patterns of student interactions in in-person physics courses using social network …

Theories developed by Tinto and Nora identify academic performance, learning gains, and
involvement in learning communities as significant facets of student engagement that, in …

Social learning, the ability to perceive, interpret, and assess the behavior of one's peers, is
crucial for forming meaningful relationships and succeeding in various learning …

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

Female students, Latinx students, first-generation students, and transfer students often feel
uncomfortable in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) environments …

Background While laboratory practices have traditionally been conducted in-person, online
asynchronous laboratory learning has been growing in popularity due to increased …

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 …

Understanding social interactions among students comprises a rich area of physics
education research. Here we focus on the social interactions in introductory physics …