[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] Within physics education research (PER), resource theory has proven to be a …

Researchers in physics education have advocated both for including modeling in science
classrooms as well as promoting student engagement with sensemaking. These two …

The way high school chemistry curricula are structured has the potential to convey
consequential messages about knowledge and knowing to students and teachers. If a …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] Epistemic beliefs about physics are most often investigated using quantitative …

Assessment tasks provide opportunities for students to make sense of novel contexts in light
of their existing ideas. Consequently, investigations in physics education research have …

Introductory physics for life sciences (IPLS) courses have emerged as a type of physics
course within the introductory courses sequence. The interdisciplinary aspects of these …

To prepare students to use science knowledge in their later personal or professional lives,
we must attend to what they believe it means to know and learn science (ie, epistemology) …

Reflecting on one's solution is widely recognized as an important part of the problem-solving
process, though the cognitive processes underlying this action are not well understood. In …

Sensemaking [1], the process of making sense of real-life scenarios through formal
knowledge, has attracted considerable attention in recent years [2–5]. It has been shown to …

This study aims to analyze the epistemic games of students in solving Newton's Law
problems. Epistemic games in solving problems by adopting epistemic games developed by …