The ComPADRE Collections

References

Initial Publication Date: September 13, 2010


PhET website:

The PhET research page contains an updated list of all research papers about PhET:

Descriptions of what the PhET team has learned about student learning and user interface design from student interviews:

Research showing that open conceptual questions lead to more student engagement than more guided activities:

Research showing that students learn as well or better in a laboratory and lecture with the real equipment replaced by the Circuit Construction Kit simulation:

General article about PhET, includes research showing that using the Wave on String simulation to demonstrate standing waves in lecture leads to improved performance on a concepTest over a traditional demonstration with a real string:

Research showing that students learn just as well when using Tutorials in Introductory Physics with the real equipment replaced by the Circuit Construction Kit simulation: 

The development and assessment of a curriculum using the Photoelectric Effect simulation:

In addition to research by the PhET team, the PhET simulations and Activity Guidelines are based on general research on how people learn:


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