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