The concept of framing from anthropology and sociolinguistics is useful for understanding
student reasoning. For example, a student may frame a learning activity as an opportunity for …

Researchers have argued against deficit-based explanations of students' difficulties with
mathematical sense-making, pointing instead to factors such as epistemology. Students' …

This paper describes research on a classification of physics problems in the context of
introductory physics courses. This classification, called the Taxonomy of Introductory Physics …

Students in inquiry science classrooms face an essential tension between sharing new
ideas and critically evaluating those ideas. This tension poses affective risks that can …

The purpose of this study was to investigate students' actions while experimenting with a
blended combination of Physical Manipulatives and Virtual Manipulatives (PMVM), as …

The increasing ease of video recording offers new opportunities to create richly detailed
records of classroom activities. These recordings, in turn, call for research methodologies …

Collaborative inquiry learning environments, such as The Tutorials in Physics Sensemaking,
are designed to provide students with opportunities to partake in the authentic disciplinary …

Group work is becoming increasingly common in introductory physics classrooms.
Understanding how students engage in these group learning environments is important for …

As part of an ongoing project to reform the introductory algebra‐based physics courses at
George Washington University, we are develo** a taxonomy of introductory physics …

Abstract Theory in cognitive science often splits into those who treat cognition as occurring
in individual minds those who treat it as situated or distributed, as irreducibly a matter of an …