This paper, presented at the 2001 Physics Education Research Conference, describes portions of an ongoing investigation into the relationship between conceptual knowledge and problem-solving ability in physics. To what...

The Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) is a non-profit organization comprised of leading physicists and outstanding teachers and educators. CPEP charts, software, and educational materials have gained...

This paper, presented at the 2001 Physics Education Research Conference, re-centers the discussion of student learning to focus on context. A theoretically-grounded understanding of context and the relation of context to...

This paper, presented at the 2002 Physics Education Research Conference, describes a study intended to understand middle school students' cognitive conflict levels when they were confronted with anomalous situations. In...

This site, authored by Professor Nina Byers of the University of California, Berkeley, is an electronic archive about 20th century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. Organized under...