Since the PhET sims have so many options for exploration, you can’t just tell a student, “Here’s a sim. Learn everything you can about this topic.” Very few students would be able to construct good ...

AIP’s William F. and Edith R. Meggers Project Award is a biennial recognition of projects with the goal of improving high ...

Multiple-choice exams measuring the breadth of students’ content knowledge have hardly disappeared. But the creators of a leading international exam, the U.S. government agency behind “the nation’s ...

Geometric optics is a confusing subject for many physics students, who often first encounter the subject in introductory college physics classes. Traditional instruction in geometric optics is not as ...