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Author(s): Diana Sachmpazidi and Charles Henderson Survey results from physics graduate programs suggest that students enrolled in the APS Bridge Program are more satisfied with departmental support structures than those in nonaffiliated programs. [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 010123] Published Wed Mar 31, 2021

Author(s): Amy D. Robertson, Lisa M. Goodhew, Rachel E. Scherr, and Paula R. L. Heron Six common conceptual resources for understanding forces were identified and found to be activated in different contexts. [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 010121] Published Tue Mar 30, 2021

Author(s): Javier Pulgar, Valentina Fahler, and Alexis Spina Introductory physics students benefit from engaging in the task of composing physics problems because they have to make choices about concepts, degree of complexity, and goals. [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 010120] Published Mon Mar 29, 2021

Author(s): John Stewart, Byron Drury, James Wells, Aaron Adair, Rachel Henderson, Yunfei Ma, Ángel Pérez-Lemonche, and David Pritchard Cluster analysis of Force Concept Inventory scores suggests that students can be classified as Newtonian thinkers still retaining some misconceptions, non-Newtonian thinkers strongly applying Newton’s third law misconceptions, and non-Newtonian thinkers weakly applying those misconceptions. [Phys. Rev. Phys...

Author(s): Cole Walsh, Martin M. Stein, Ryan Tapping, Emily M. Smith, and N. G. Holmes Physics education research studies are prone to omitted variable bias because we never know the “true” model and can never account for all possible variables. [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 010119] Published Thu Mar 25, 2021

Author(s): P. Klein, S. Becker, S. Küchemann, and J. Kuhn Eye movements can reflect task demands on a procedural level beyond the classical methods of evaluating test scores, suggesting that eye tracking is a method for item analysis that can be utilized to explore test and item structures. [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 013102] Published Wed Mar 17, 2021

Author(s): David Woitkowski, Leonie Rochell, and Anna B. Bauer Both physics students and professors have some inadequate views about the nature of science; they both tend to view scientific knowledge as certain and largely stable. [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 010118] Published Mon Mar 15, 2021