Andrew F. Heckler Associate Professor Department of Physics Ohio State University 191 West Woodruff Ave Columbus, OH 43210-1117 heckler.6@osu.edu Phone: 614-688-3048 Fax: 614-292-7557

Selected Publications

Most Current CV

Affiliations:

OSU Physics Education Research Group

OSU Center for Cognitive Science

Research interests:

Physics Education and Cognitive Science

- Identification and description of student difficulties with physics

- Fundamental origins of student difficulties with scientific concepts

- Learning and the transfer of learning

- Implicit vs. explicit processes involved in answering physics questions

- Abstract and concrete representations

- Evolution and hierarchy of student understanding of physics

- Role of diagrams in physics learning/problem solving

Materials Science Engineering Education

- Identification and description of student difficulties with materials science engineering

- Development of instructional materials (Link to MSE Tutorials)

Cosmology/Particle Astrophysics (I am not currently active in this area)

- Phase Transitions in the very early Universe

- Emergent radiation spectrum from evaporating Black Holes

- Properties of plasmas in the early universe and astrophysical objects

Some of my Cosmology/Astrophysics papers can be found in the Astrophysics Archive under my name, or here.