Noah Finkelstein
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American physicist and professor
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Noah Finkelstein's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics Stanford University
Why Is Noah Finkelstein Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Noah David Finkelstein is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a founding co-director of the Colorado Center for STEM Learning, a President’s Teaching Scholar, and the inaugural Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador. His research focuses on physics education and on developing models of context, the scope of which involves students, departments, and institutional scales of transformation. In 2010, Finkelstein testified to the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on how to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate STEM education.
Noah Finkelstein's Published Works
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Published Works
- Facilitating change in undergraduate STEM instructional practices: An analytic review of the literature (2011) (801)
- New Instrument for Measuring Student Beliefs about Physics and Learning Physics: The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey. (2006) (622)
- Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation (2010) (610)
- When learning about the real world is better done virtually: A study of substituting computer simulations for laboratory equipment (2005) (534)
- PhET: Interactive Simulations for Teaching and Learning Physics (2006) (348)
- A physics department’s role in preparing physics teachers: The Colorado learning assistant model (2010) (204)
- Demonstration and characterization of filtered Rayleigh scattering for planar velocity measurements (1996) (196)
- Characterizing the gender gap in introductory physics (2009) (188)
- Not all interactive engagement is the same: Variations in physics professors' implementation of Peer Instruction (2009) (167)
- Patterns of multiple representation use by experts and novices during physics problem solving (2008) (161)
- Replicating and understanding successful innovations: Implementing tutorials in introductory physics (2005) (145)
- Student representational competence and self-assessment when solving physics problems (2005) (142)
- Reducing the gender gap in the physics classroom: How sufficient is interactive engagement? (2007) (130)
- Beyond Dissemination in College Science Teaching: An Introduction to Four Core Change Strategies (2010) (130)
- AIP Conference Proceedings: Correlating Student Beliefs With Student Learning Using The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (2005) (116)
- Learning Physics in Context: A study of student learning about electricity and magnetism (2005) (115)
- Strongly and Weakly Directed Approaches to Teaching Multiple Representation Use in Physics (2007) (106)
- Who Is Responsible for Preparing Science Teachers? (2006) (104)
- Effects of Representation on Students Solving Physics Problems: A Fine-Grained Characterization. (2006) (99)
- Fitting in or Opting Out: A Review of Key Social-Psychological Factors Influencing a Sense of Belonging for Women in Physics. (2016) (95)
- Gender disparities in second-semester college physics: The incremental effects of a “smog of bias” (2010) (95)
- The Construction of Different Classroom Norms during Peer Instruction: Students Perceive Differences. (2010) (91)
- Sustaining Educational Reforms in Introductory Physics. (2008) (90)
- HighTech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project (2006) (84)
- Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM Education (2012) (77)
- The process of transforming an advanced lab course: Goals, curriculum, and assessments (2012) (77)
- Towards the STEM DBER Alliance: why we need a discipline-based STEM education research community (2017) (73)
- Fitting in to Move Forward (2017) (72)
- The Design and Validation of the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (2005) (66)
- Analogical scaffolding and the learning of abstract ideas in physics: An example from electromagnetic waves (2007) (66)
- Sustainable Change: A Framework for Transforming Departmental Culture to Support Educational Innovation (2014) (64)
- Students and Instructors May Not See Eye to Eye (2006) (63)
- Research‐based Practices For Effective Clicker Use (2007) (62)
- Correlating Student Beliefs With Student Learning Using The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (2008) (62)
- Epistemology and Expectations Survey about Experimental Physics: Development and Initial Results. (2013) (55)
- Model-Based Reasoning in the Physics Laboratory: Framework and Initial Results. (2014) (55)
- Analogical Scaffolding and the Learning of Abstract Ideas in Physics: Empirical Studies. (2007) (54)
- Effect of Instructional Environment on Physics Students' Representational Skills. (2006) (54)
- Teaching and understanding of quantum interpretations in modern physics courses (2010) (52)
- Can Computer Simulations Replace Real Equipment in Undergraduate Laboratories (2005) (46)
- Development of quantum perspectives in modern physics (2009) (44)
- Critical look at physics identity: An operationalized framework for examining race and physics identity (2018) (39)
- Replicating a self-affirmation intervention to address gender differences: Successes and challenges (2012) (37)
- How a gender gap in belonging contributes to the gender gap in physics participation (2013) (37)
- AIP Conference Proceedings: Towards characterizing the relationship between students’ interest in and their beliefs about physics (2006) (34)
- Narrow-linewidth passband filter for ultraviolet rotational Raman imaging. (1997) (31)
- Assessing the Effectiveness of a Computer Simulation in Introductory Undergraduate Environments (2007) (31)
- Teaching Quantum Interpretations: Revisiting the Goals and Practices of Introductory Quantum Physics Courses. (2014) (31)
- Incorporating learning goals about modeling into an upper-division physics laboratory experiment (2013) (30)
- Refined Characterization of Student Perspectives on Quantum Physics (2010) (29)
- Assessing The Effectiveness Of A Computer Simulation In Conjunction With Tutorials In Introductory Physics In Undergraduate Physics Recitations (2006) (26)
- Are Most People Too Dumb for Physics (2009) (25)
- Control of experimental uncertainties in filtered Rayleigh scattering measurements (1995) (25)
- Development and validation of the Colorado learning attitudes about science survey for experimental physics (2012) (24)
- Fostering sustainable improvements in science education: An analysis through four frames (2019) (24)
- Promoting Children's Understanding And Interest In Science Through Informal Science Education (2009) (23)
- Aligning Practice to Policies: Changing the Culture to Recognize and Reward Teaching at Research Universities (2017) (23)
- Unpacking Gender Differences in Students’ Perceived Experiences in Introductory Physics (2009) (23)
- Expert and Novice Use of Multiple Representations During Physics Problem Solving (2007) (22)
- Impact of Informal Science Education on Children’s Attitudes About Science (2010) (21)
- Four categories of change strategies for transforming undergraduate instruction (2012) (20)
- Deconstructing Black physics identity: Linking individual and social constructs using the critical physics identity framework (2019) (18)
- Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM: Initial Results from an Interdisciplinary Literature Review (2008) (18)
- Designing for institutional transformation: Six principles for department-level interventions (2019) (17)
- Dispersion filter for spectral and spatial resolution of pure rotational Raman scattering. (1998) (16)
- Cavity locked, injection seeded, titanium:sapphire laser and application to ultraviolet flow diagnostics (1996) (15)
- Students' flexible use of ontologies and the value of tentative reasoning: Examples of conceptual understanding in three canonical topics of quantum mechanics (2018) (15)
- Characterizing Pedagogical Practices of University Physics Students in Informal Learning Environments. (2016) (14)
- Impacting university physics students through participation in informal science (2013) (13)
- Impacts of curricular change: Implications from 8 years of data in introductory physics (2013) (13)
- Understanding and Promoting Effective Use of Representations in Physics Learning (2017) (13)
- Investigating the Source of the Gender Gap in Introductory Physics (2007) (13)
- Splits in students’ beliefs about learning classical and quantum physics (2019) (13)
- Representational Format, Student Choice, and Problem Solving in Physics (2005) (13)
- Comparing Explicit and Implicit Teaching of Multiple Representation Use in Physics Problem Solving (2007) (13)
- Context in the Context of Physics and Learning (2001) (13)
- Preliminary Categorization of Literature on Promoting Change in Undergraduate STEM (2008) (12)
- Redesigning a junior-level electronics course to support engagement in scientific practices (2015) (12)
- Preparing tutorial and recitation instructors: A pedagogical approach to focusing attention on content and student reasoning (2012) (12)
- Evaluating a model of research-based practices for teacher preparation in a physics department: Colorado PhysTEC (2006) (11)
- Salience of Representations and Analogies in Physics (2007) (11)
- Tools for High-Tech Tool Use: A Framework and Heuristics for Using Interactive Simulations (2013) (11)
- Doppler velocimetry in a supersonic jet by use of frequency-modulated filtered light scattering. (1997) (10)
- Improving educational change agents' efficacy in science, engineering, and mathematics education (2008) (10)
- Understanding How Physics Faculty Use Peer Instruction (2007) (10)
- University physics students’ motivations and experiences in informal physics programs (2016) (10)
- Examining the Beliefs and Practice of Teaching Assistants: Two Case Studies (2010) (9)
- Design and Application of a Framework for Examining the Beliefs and Practices of Physics Teaching Assistants. (2016) (9)
- Student Representational Competence and the Role of Instructional Environment in Introductory Physics (2006) (9)
- Evaluating Scholarly Teaching : A Model and Call for an Evidence-Based Approach (2018) (9)
- Investigating the dynamics of ontological reasoning across contexts in quantum physics (2019) (9)
- Characterizing Models of Informal Physics Programs (2019) (9)
- Towards a Model of Systemic Change in University STEM Education (2014) (9)
- Categorical framework for mathematical sense making in physics (2020) (9)
- Promoting children’s agency and communication skills in an informal science program (2013) (9)
- The development of a tunable, single-frequency ultraviolet laser source for UV filtered Rayleigh scattering (1995) (9)
- Toward an analytic framework of physics teaching assistants' pedagogical knowledge (2012) (8)
- Quantifying high speed air flows by light scattering from air molecules (1994) (8)
- Precision Whole-Field Velocity Measurements with Frequency-Scanned Filtered Rayleigh Scattering (1996) (8)
- Acting in Our Own Self‐Interests: Blending University and Community in Informal Science Education (2008) (8)
- Ontological Flexibility and the Learning of Quantum Mechanics (2014) (8)
- Student Perspectives in Quantum Physics (2008) (8)
- Physics Education Research funding census (2012) (7)
- Preparing physics graduate students to be educators (2008) (7)
- Teaching and learning physics: A model for coordinating physics instruction, outreach, and research (2004) (7)
- Transforming Undergraduate Education From the Middle Out With Departmental Action Teams (2019) (7)
- Frequency-modulated filtered Rayleigh scattering (FM-FRS) - A new technique for real-time velocimetry (1996) (7)
- Towards Understanding Classroom Culture: Students’ Perceptions of Tutorials (2009) (7)
- More than good curricula: A Guide for curricular change agents (2008) (7)
- Mercury vapor filter technology and ultraviolet laser source for flowfield imaging (1997) (6)
- Investigating and promoting epistemological sophistication in quantum physics (2018) (6)
- Establishing a Better Approach for Evaluating Teaching: The TEval Project (2020) (6)
- How Abstract is Abstract? Layering meaning in physics. (2008) (6)
- A Framework for Incorporating Model-Based Inquiry into Physics Laboratory Courses (2013) (6)
- Learning To Communicate About Science In Everyday Language Through Informal Science Education (2009) (6)
- Gender Differences in Physics 1: The Impact of a Self-Affirmation Intervention (2010) (6)
- The Persistence of the Gender Gap in Introductory Physics (2008) (6)
- Institutionalizing reform in introductory physics (2008) (5)
- Tracking Recitation Instructors’ Awareness of Student Conceptual Difficulties (2009) (5)
- Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses (2007) (5)
- The Intersection of Identity and Performing Arts of Black Physicists (2018) (5)
- Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change (2015) (5)
- AIP Conference Proceedings: Transforming the advanced lab: Part I - Learning goals (2012) (5)
- Use of Scientific Language by University Physics Students Communicating to the Public (2015) (5)
- When the Classroom Isn't in School: The Construction of Scientific Knowledge in an After-School Setting (2002) (4)
- Understanding connections between physics and racial identities through recognition and relational resources (2016) (4)
- Towards the STEM DBER Alliance: Why we Need a Discipline-Based STEM Education Research Community (2017) (4)
- Transforming Institutions: Accelerating Systemic Change in Higher Education (2021) (4)
- Doppler velocimetry in a supersonic jet using frequency-modulated filtered light scattering (1997) (4)
- AIP Conference Proceedings: The Design and Validation of the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (2005) (4)
- A narrow passband, imaging, refluorescence filter for non-intrusive flow diagnostics (1996) (4)
- High signal-to-noise detection of rotational Raman scattering through refluorescent and dispersive atomic filters (2000) (4)
- Interpretive Themes in Quantum Physics: Curriculum Development and Outcomes (2011) (4)
- Performing Physics: An Analysis of Design-Based Informal STEAM Education Programs (2019) (4)
- Interpretation in Quantum Physics as Hidden Curriculum (2010) (4)
- Refraining Analogy: framing as a mechanism of analogy use (2007) (4)
- Narrow-linewidth passband filters and UV laser source for rotational Raman imaging (1997) (4)
- Studying Expert Practices to Create Learning Goals for Electronics Labs (2014) (4)
- Aesthetics and expanding perception in fluid physics (2015) (4)
- Departmental Action Teams: A five-year update on a model for sustainable change (2018) (4)
- Refining a model for understanding and characterizing instructor pedagogy in informal physics learning environments (2020) (3)
- Applying a framework for characterizing physics teaching assistants’ beliefs and practices (2013) (3)
- Strengthening Undergraduate and Graduate STEM Education Research and Science Education Subcommittee Committee on Science and Technology U.S House of Representatives (2010) (3)
- Sustainable Change: A Model for Transforming Departmental Culture to Support STEM Education Innovation (2014) (3)
- Promoting High Quality Teaching Practices in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from the USA (2012) (3)
- New Media and Models for Engaging Under‐Represented Students in Science (2008) (3)
- Frequency-locked light scattering: real-time Doppler velocimetry with closed-loop feedback control. (1998) (3)
- Seeding Change: The Challenges of Transfer and Transformation of Educational Practice and Research in Physics (Part II) (2005) (3)
- Expanding Perception: How Students “See” Fluids (2015) (3)
- Ethics education in the quantum information science classroom: Exploring attitudes, barriers, and opportunities (2022) (3)
- Coordinating Physics and Education Instruction (2003) (2)
- Coordinating Physics and Education Instruction: Linking Research, Teaching, and Community Service. (2003) (2)
- Who Cares About Postdocs Anyway ? 1 Who Cares About Postdocs Anyway ? Evaluating the National Science Foundation ' s Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science , Mathematics , Engineering and Technology Education (2002) (2)
- Categorizing mathematical sense making and an example of how physics understanding can support mathematical understanding (2020) (2)
- Optical Diagnostics for Flows with Density Variations (1997) (2)
- Evaluating teaching in a scholarly manner: A model and call for an evidence-based, departmentally-defined approach to enhance teaching evaluation for CU Boulder (2017) (2)
- Comparing Mechanistic Reasoning in Open and Guided Inquiry Physics Activities (2014) (2)
- Fostering Inclusion and Teaching Equity in a Modern Physics for Engineers Course (2020) (2)
- A framework for curriculum design to support mathematical sense making (2020) (2)
- Infusing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Throughout Our Physics Curriculum: (Re)defining What It Means to Be a Physicist (2021) (2)
- Conceptual blending as a tool for analyzing group discourse (2016) (2)
- Pedagogy in Higher Education: Using a Cultural Historical Approach to Understand Educational Change in Introductory Physics Classrooms (2013) (2)
- A Design-Based Informal Physics Program from a Youth Perspective (2019) (2)
- What Should We Expect Students to Learn (2009) (2)
- Development and results from a survey on students' views of experiments in lab classes and research (2013) (2)
- Imaging fluid phenomena with atomic and molecular vapor filters (1997) (2)
- Dynamics of students’ ontological reasoning across contexts in modern physics (2019) (1)
- Quantum Interpretations in Modern Physics Instruction (2009) (1)
- The Role of Contextual Framing : Assessments , Classroom Practice , and Student Perceptions (2009) (1)
- Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Twain!: Reengaging Science Students through Visual Aesthetics (2020) (1)
- Preparing graduate students to be educators (2006) (1)
- Using Data to Make the Case for Sustained Reform (2012) (1)
- The Physics Education Technology Project: A New Suite of Physics Simulations (2004) (1)
- Scholarly Teaching for All, Research for Some: On the Roles of Research and Scholarship of Education in the Disciplines (2020) (1)
- What factors influence pedagogical methods in informal learning spaces? (2020) (1)
- Coordinating Science Education , Outreach , and Research (2000) (1)
- The Effect of Explicit Preparation in Pedagogical Modes for Informal Physics Educators (2018) (1)
- Applying a Racialized Physics Identity Framework for Black Women From Different Nationalities (2018) (1)
- Pathways to STEM: Understanding Identity of Adult Physicists through Narrative Analysis (2015) (1)
- Physics I MOOC - Educational Outcomes (2015) (1)
- Publisher's Note: Strongly and weakly directed approaches to teaching multiple representation use in physics [Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 3 , 010108 (2007)] (2007) (1)
- Proceedings for the NSEC 2017 National Conference (2021) (0)
- Learning Assistants at CU Boulder (2008) (0)
- Preparing Undergrads to Teach (Well): The Colorado Learning Assistant Model (2008) (0)
- Ultraviolet rotational Raman spectroscopy with an atomic resonance filter (1998) (0)
- The e ¤ ect of instructional technique on physics students representational skills (2005) (0)
- Epistemic stances toward group work in learning physics: Interactions between epistemology and social dynamics in a collaborative problem solving context (2020) (0)
- Physics for the 21st Century, a course in modern physics for teachers, students, and the pubic (2011) (0)
- The Role and Promise of Universities and Disciplinary Engagement in Educational Transformation at a Critical Time (2014) (0)
- Mercury-vapor filter and UV-laser system for Rayleigh lidar (1995) (0)
- Characterizing differences in students' epistemologies between classical and quantum physics (2019) (0)
- Intersectionality and Physics Identity : A Case Study of Black Women From Different Nationalities (2017) (0)
- What's all the fuss about Adoption and Diffusion? Study and Improvement of Change Strategies in Physics Education (2009) (0)
- Educational ( dis ) continuities : coordinating physics instruction in pre-college and university (2003) (0)
- The Context of Graduate Student Preparation in Physics: professional roles of research and teaching (2004) (0)
- Proceedings for the NSEC 2020 National Conference (2021) (0)
- Model of University-Community Science Partnerships to Engage K12 Students (2008) (0)
- Why (and How) Policy Matters in Physics Education: a disciplinary perspective on educational policy (2015) (0)
- Proceedings for the NSEC 2018 National Conference (2021) (0)
- Sustainable and Scalable Reforms in Physics Education: Research studies from Colorado PhysTEC (2006) (0)
- Proceedings for the NSEC 2019 National Conference (2021) (0)
- FREQUENCY MODULATED-FILTERED RAYLEIGH SCATTERING (FM--FRS): A NEW VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUE (1995) (0)
- Understanding the Gender Gap in Introductory Physics (2008) (0)
- Addressing Gender Disparity in Introductory Physics Courses: Are existing reforms enough? (2007) (0)
- Sustaining Educational Innovation: engaging traditional faculty in transformed practices (2007) (0)
- Investigating the dynamics of ontological reasoning in quantum physics (2019) (0)
- Building more inclusive educational environments in physics: understanding and addressing social-psychological factors to support learners (2019) (0)
- Technology to Engage Underrepresented K12 Students in Science (2008) (0)
- The role of representation when solving physics problems (2007) (0)
- Towards the STEM DBER Alliance: why we need a discipline-based STEM education research community (2017) (0)
- Sustaining Educational Transformation in a Physics Department (part 1 of 2) (2009) (0)
- Educating Scientifically - Advances in Physics Education Research (2007) (0)
- Towards the STEM DBER Alliance: Why we Need a Discipline-Based STEM Education Research Community (2017) (0)
- Replicating Reforms in a Large-scale Lecture Environment (2006) (0)
- Ultra Violet Rotational Raman Spectroscopy with a Dispersive Atomic Resonance Filter (1998) (0)
- Going Beyond Calculation and Concepts: Students' Interpretation and Knowledge Structures in Quantum Mechanics. (2017) (0)
- Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Twain! Reengaging Science Students through Visual Aesthetics (2020) (0)
- Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities (2022) (0)
- Proceedings NSEC 2015 National Conference (2021) (0)
- Workshop: State advocacy for HS Physics (2016) (0)
- Applying a mathematical sense-making framework to student work and its potential for curriculum design (2021) (0)
- An Instructional-Workforce Framework for Coordinated Change in Undergraduate Education (2023) (0)
- The Physics Education Technology Project: Web-based interactive simulations to support student learning (2004) (0)
- Who Cares About Postdocs Anyway? (2002) (0)
- Bridging Critical Points: discontinuities in high school and university physics education (2004) (0)
- Promoting High Quality Teaching Practices in Higher Education (2012) (0)
- A Longitudinal Study on Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Synthesizing Research on Content, Pedagogy, and Practice (2009) (0)
- Proceedings NSEC 2016 National Conference (2021) (0)
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