2015 article
Editorial: Reflections on the Origins of Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
Beichner, R. J. (2015, July 23). PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH, Vol. 11.
Physics Education Research (PER) is a well-established subfield of physics.This was not always the case.The field is young enough that many practitioners can recall early efforts that were necessary to demonstrate PER's value.Prior to the 1990s, many (or perhaps most) physicists did not put much credence in the slowly growing body of research on the teaching and learning of their subject [1].Compounding this was the great difficulty in getting PER studies