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Table of Contents for – January - June 2009
(Volume 5, Issue 1)

Please cite this journal as Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res.. For citations, use the volume number and year as given above; the article id (the six-digit number given below for each article) replaces the page number in traditional citations. Thus a citation should be in the form: N. D. Finkelstein and S. J. Pollock, "Replicating and understanding successful innovations: Implementing tutorials in introductory physics," Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 1, 010101 (2005).

ARTICLES

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Characterizing the gender gap in introductory physics
Lauren E. Kost, Steven J. Pollock, and Noah D. Finkelstein
Published 8 January 2009 (14 pages)
010101 [View PDF (182 kB) ]

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Link maps and map meetings: Scaffolding student learning
Christine Lindstrøm and Manjula D. Sharma
Published 22 January 2009 (11 pages)
010102 [View PDF (630 kB) ]

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Characterizing the epistemological development of physics majors
Elizabeth Gire, Barbara Jones, and Edward Price
Published 23 February 2009 (6 pages)
010103 [View PDF (564 kB) ]

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Anatomy of a physics test: Validation of the physics items on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills
Jill A. Marshall, Eric A. Hagedorn, and Jerry O’Connor
Published 4 March 2009 (11 pages)
010104 [View PDF (171 kB) ]

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Comparing the force and motion conceptual evaluation and the force concept inventory
Ronald K Thornton, Dennis Kuhl, Karen Cummings, and Jeffrey Marx
Published 20 March 2009 (8 pages)
010105 [View PDF (576 kB) ]

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Development of quantum perspectives in modern physics
Charles Baily and Noah D. Finkelstein
Published 23 March 2009 (8 pages)
010106 [View PDF (257 kB) ]

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Gender differences in the use of an online homework system in an introductory physics course
Gerd Kortemeyer
Published 26 May 2009 (8 pages)
010107 [View PDF (172 kB) ]

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Do students use and understand free-body diagrams?
David Rosengrant, Alan Van Heuvelen, and Eugenia Etkina
Published 1 June 2009 (13 pages)
010108 [View PDF (274 kB) ]

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Using action research to improve learning and formative assessment to conduct research
Eugenia Etkina, Anna Karelina, Sahana Murthy, and Maria Ruibal-Villasenor
Published 3 June 2009 (15 pages)
010109 [View PDF (139 kB) ]

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“Force,” ontology, and language
David T. Brookes and Eugenia Etkina
Published 25 June 2009 (13 pages)
010110 [View PDF (198 kB) ]

SHORT PAPERS

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Peaks and decays of student knowledge in an introductory E&M course
Eleanor C. Sayre and Andrew F. Heckler
Published 12 February 2009 (5 pages)
013101 [View PDF (352 kB) ]

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Modeling instruction: Positive attitudinal shifts in introductory physics measured with CLASS
Eric Brewe, Laird Kramer, and George O’Brien
Published 19 June 2009 (5 pages)
013102 [View PDF (109 kB) ]