Physics Education Research Lab
UiO-MSU collaboration produces paper about institutional influence on physics GRE cutoffs
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.
March 29, 2021
WVU, MIT, UCONN, MSU collaboration examines the relation of correct knowledge and misconceptions
As part of a multi-institution collaboration, PERL Professor Rachel Henderson published Examining the relation of correct knowledge and misconceptions using the nominal response model in Physical Review, Physics Education Research
March 1, 2021
PERL members win PERC Proceedings Notable Paper award
PERL members Xandria Quichocho, Katie Hinko, Nick Young, and Danny Caballero won the PERC Proceedings Notable Paper award for their papers at PERC 2019.
February 19, 2021
UiO-MSU collaboration produces paper about institutional influence on physics GRE cutoffs
PERL members Nick Young and Danny Caballero contributed to Investigating institutional influence on graduate program admissions by modeling physics Graduate Record Examination cutoff scores which was published in Physical Review Physics Education Research.
February 10, 2021
WVU, RU, and MSU collaboration produces paper on mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics
As part of a collaboration, PERL professor Rachel Henderson contributed to the paper Mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics published in Physical Review Physics Education Research.