Physics Education Research Lab
MSU and UiO collaboration publishes paper on predicting time to graduation
READ MOREThe Physics Education Research Lab at Michigan State University (PERL@MSU) is an interdisciplinary collaboration that studies: how students in learn physics and engage in physics practice, social and contextual factors that promote student learning and engagement, assessments (conceptual learning, epistemology, and practice), and educational technology use and practice.
We support work in a variety of contexts from pre-college to post-graduate. Our research group includes faculty, staff, postdocs, and students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the College of Education, Lyman Briggs College, the CREATE for STEM Institute, and Science Studies at State.
December 4, 2020
PERL members publish paper on P-Cubed Course
PERL professors Paul Irving, Daryl McPadden, and Danny Caballero published Communities of practice as a curriculum design theory in an introductory physics class for engineers in Physical Review Physics Education Research.
December 4, 2020
PERL members publish paper on epistemological beliefs in University Modeling Instruction
PERL members Daryl McPadden, Camila Monsalve, and Vashti Sawtelle published Productive faculty resources activated by curricular materials: An example of epistemological beliefs in University Modeling Instruction in Physical Review Physics Education Research.
November 13, 2020
MSU and UiO collaboration publishes paper on predicting time to graduation
A team of researchers from the University of Oslo and Michigan State including PhD student, John Aiken (lead author), and PERL co-director, Danny Caballero, published Predicting time to graduation at a large enrollment American university in PLOS One.
September 23, 2020
PERL Members Publish 6 PERC Papers
We're proud to announce that the PERL Team has contributed to 6 PERC Papers in 2020.