Glossary of PER Terms

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  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - The American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) - AAPT is a strong professional physics science society dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in physical science education.

  • American Journal of Physics (AJP)

  • American Physical Society (APS)

  • Discipline Based Education Research (DBER)

  • European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)

  • European Physical Society (EPS)

  • Force Concept Inventory (FCI) - (Hestenes, Wells & Swackhamer, 1992; Hake, 1998)

  • Forum on Education (FED or FEd) - forum in APS on education

  • Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA) - forum in APS for graduate students

  • Force-Motion Concept Evaluation (FMCE) - (Thornton & Sokoloff, 1998)

  • Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Enseignement de la Physique (GIREP) - European equivalent of AAPT

  • (Topical) Group on Physics Education Research (GPER)

  • Journal of Learning Sciences (JLS)

  • Journal of Science Teacher Education (JSTE)

  • National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Physics by Inquiry (PbI)

  • Physics Education Research Conference (PERC)

  • Physics Education Research Consortium of Graduate Students (PERCoGS) - Elected officials representing graduate students

  • PhET - Physics Education Technology Interactive Simulations (PhET Sims)

  • Physics Education Research Graduate Students (PERGS) - Community of graduate students in PER

  • Physics Education Research Leadership Organizing Council (PERLOC) - Elected officials representing physics education researchers

  • Physics Education Research Topical Group (PERTG) - Community of physics education researchers within the AAPT

  • Physics Education Research User's Guide (PERUG) - Web resource for physics educators to learn how to teach more effectively by applying the results of PER and teaching methods based on these results.

  • Physical Review - Physics Education Research (Phys Rev) - (Used to be called PRST (Physical Review Special Topic) -PER but now just Phys Rev)

  • Research in Science Education (RiSE)

  • Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME)

  • Science & Education (Journal)

  • Science Education (Journal)

  • Scholar in Residence (SIR)

  • The Physics Teacher (TPT) Journal