Rachel E. Scherr

Research Assistant Professor

Physics Education Research Group

University of Maryland

College Park, MD  20742

(301) 405-6179

rescherr@umd.edu


Curriculum vitae Publications Presentations



Publications

(last updated April 2008)


  1. R. E. Scherr, B. Frank, and D. Hammer, "Understanding students' 'failure to differentiate' basic physical quantities," in preparation
  2. R. E. Scherr and D. Hammer, “Student behavior and epistemological framing:  Examples from collaborative active-learning activities in physics,” accepted to Cog. & Instr.: Preprint
  3. D. Hammer, R. S. Russ, R. E. Scherr, and J. Mikeska, "Identifying inquiry and conceptualizing students' abilities," in R. Duschl and R. Grandy (Eds.), Establishing a consensus agenda for K-12 science inquiry (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, NL) (in press): Preprint
  4. R. S. Russ, R. E. Scherr, D. Hammer, and J. Mikeska, “Recognizing mechanistic reasoning in scientific inquiry: A framework for discourse analysis developed from philosophy of science,” Sci. Educ. 92(3), 499-525 (2008): Copy
  5. R. E. Scherr, “Gesture analysis for physics education researchers,” Phys. Rev. – Special Topics: Phys. Educ. Res. 4, 010101 (2008):  Copy;  Publication site with videos
  6. L. D. Conlin, A. Gupta, R. E. Scherr, and D. Hammer, "The dynamics of students' behaviors and reasoning during collaborative physics tutorial sessions," in P. R. L. Heron, L. McCullough, and J. Marx (Eds.), AIP Conf. Proc. 951, 69-72 (2007 Physics Education Research Conference):  Copy
  7. R. E. Scherr, “Modeling student thinking: An example from special relativity,” Am. J. Phys. 70(3), 272-280 (2007):  Copy
  8. R. E. Scherr and A. Elby, “Enabling informed adaptation:  Open-source physics worksheets integrated with implementation resources,” in P. R. L. Heron, L. McCullough, and J. Marx (Eds.), AIP Conf. Proc. 883, 46-49 (2006 Physics Education Research Conference): Copy
  9. R. E. Scherr, R. S. Russ, T. J. Bing, and R. A. Hodges, “Initiation of student-TA interactions in tutorials,” Phys. Rev. – Special Topics: Phys. Educ. Res. 2, 020108-020116 (2006): Copy
  10. E. F. Redish, R. E. Scherr, and J. Tuminaro, “Reverse-engineering the solution of a ‘simple’ physics problem: Why learning physics is harder than it looks,” The Physics Teacher 44, 293-300 (2006): Copy
  11. M. C. Wittmann, P. R. L. Heron, and R. E. Scherr, “Overview of the Foundations and Frontiers in Physics Education Research Conference,” APS Forum on Education Newsletter (Fall 2005)
  12. R. E. Scherr and E. F. Redish, “Newton’s zeroth law:  Learning from listening to our students,” The Physics Teacher 43, 41-45 (2005): Copy
  13. D. Hammer, A. Elby, R. E. Scherr, and E. F. Redish, “Resources, framing, and transfer,” J. P. Mestre (ed.), Transfer of learning: Research and perspectives (IAP, Greenwich, CT) (2005)
  14. R. E. Scherr, “An implementation of Physics by Inquiry in a large-enrollment class,” The Physics Teacher 41(2), 113-118 (2003): Copy
  15. R. E. Scherr, “Gestures as evidence of student thinking in physics,” in J. Marx, K. Cummings, and S. Franklin (Eds.), AIP Conference Proceedings 720, 61-64 (2003 Physics Education Research Conference)
  16. R. E. Scherr, P. S. Shaffer, and S. Vokos, “The challenge of changing deeply-held student beliefs about the relativity of simultaneity,” Am. J. Phys. 70(12), 1238-1248 (2002)
  17. R. E. Scherr and M. C. Wittmann, “The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation,” in S. Franklin, K. Cummings, and J. Marx (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2002
  18. M. C. Wittmann and R. E. Scherr, “Student epistemological stance constraining researcher access to student thinking: An example from an interview on charge flow,” in S. Franklin, K. Cummings, and J. Marx (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2002
  19. R. E. Scherr, P. S. Shaffer, and S. Vokos, “Student understanding of time in special relativity:  Simultaneity and reference frames,” Phys. Educ. Res., Am. J. Phys. Suppl. 69, S24-S35 (2001)
  20. Contributions to Physics by Inquiry, L. C. McDermott and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1996)
  21. Contributions to Tutorials in Introductory Physics, L. C. McDermott, P. S. Shaffer, and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington (Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998)