<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/wvu-ru-and-msu-collaboration-produces-paper-on-mediational-effect-of-prior-preparation.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>02/10/2021</pubDate><title>WVU, RU, and MSU collaboration produces paper on mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics</title><description><p>As part of a collaboration, PERL professor Rachel Henderson contributed to the paper <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010107" data-cke-saved-href="https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010107">Mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics</a> published in Physical Review Physics Education Research.</p></description><author/><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2021/Full%20PERL%20template.png" alt="WVU, RU, and MSU collaboration produces paper on mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics"/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2021/previewFull%20PERL%20template.png" alt="WVU, RU, and MSU collaboration produces paper on mediational effect of prior preparation on performance differences of students underrepresented in physics"/></image></item>