Glossary of PER Terms & Acronyms

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• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) - AAPT is a strong professional physics science society dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in physical science education.
• American Journal of Physics (AJP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Discipline Based Education Research (DBER)
• European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)
• European Physical Society (EPS)
• Force Concept Inventory (FCI) - (Hestenes, Wells & Swackhamer, 1992; Hake, 1998)
• Forum on Education (FED or FEd) - forum in APS on education
• Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA) - forum in APS for graduate students
• Force-Motion Concept Evaluation (FMCE) - (Thornton & Sokoloff, 1998)
• Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Enseignement de la Physique (GIREP) - European equivalent of AAPT
• (Topical) Group on Physics Education Research (GPER)
• Journal of Learning Sciences (JLS)
• Journal of Science Teacher Education (JSTE)
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Physics by Inquiry (PbI)
• Physics Education Research Conference (PERC)
• Physics Education Research Consortium of Graduate Students (PERCoGS) - Elected officials representing graduate students
• PhET - Physics Education Technology Interactive Simulations (PhET Sims)
• Physics Education Research Graduate Students (PERGS) - Community of graduate students in PER
• Physics Education Research Leadership Organizing Council (PERLOC) - Elected officials representing physics education researchers
• Physics Education Research Topical Group (PERTG) - Community of physics education researchers within the AAPT
• Physics Education Research User's Guide (PERUG) - Web resource for physics educators to learn how to teach more effectively by applying the results of PER and teaching methods based on these results.
• Physical Review - Physics Education Research (Phys Rev) - (Used to be called PRST (Physical Review Special Topic) -PER but now just Phys Rev)
• Research in Science Education (RiSE)
• Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME)
• Science & Education (Journal)
• Science Education (Journal)
• Scholar in Residence (SIR) -
• The Physics Teacher (TPT) Journal