Current Projects

• Measurement of scientific reasoning ability and conceptual understanding of physics content
• Quantitative models of learning and assessment
• Cognitive origins of student difficulties
• Measurement of learning, decay and interference in student understanding during a course
• Use of clickers in large-format lectures
• Development of "virtual reality" physics simulations for teaching
• Student understanding of Materials Science

Other Pages

• People in our group, past and present
• PER Seminar schedule

External Links

• Physical Review Special Topics: PER - PER's new electronic jounral, under the banner of Phys Rev.
• PER at arXiv - The Los Alamos e-print archive has a PER section where new articles appear every week.
• PER-Central - A broad database of PER articles and resources.
• Rutgers PAER - Our "sister" group at Rutgers, led by Alan Van Heuvelen and Eugenia Etkina.
• University of Maryland PERG - The Maryland group is one of the largest in the community. They maintain an extensive list of PER-related links.

• OSU Department of Physics
• OSU College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• The Ohio State University