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Physics Education Research (PER) is concerned with developing our understanding of teaching and learning in physics and related subject areas. Many investigators starting in PER have a background in physics and experience of teaching physics, but sometimes lack knowledge about some of the key ideas behind educational research. Motivated by the growing interest in PER within the UK and the Republic of Ireland we have developed this guide to help practitioners (lecturers and teaching staff in higher education, teachers in the secondary sector) better understand and apply some of the methods of educational research. We anticipate that the site may also be useful to PhD students and staff tasked with evaluation of educational projects (such as outreach activities).
The site provides a guide to help you formulate research questions and understand the different theoretical approaches and methodologies commonly used in educational research. It also highlights the importance of setting achievable research goals and alerts you to some of the protocols around dealing with human research subjects that you may be unfamiliar with. The site also provides a guide to publications in PER (and STEM Educational Research more generally) which can be extremely useful when thinking about the dissemination of your work.
This site is designed to be a resource to help you as you get started in PER. You may want to read it from end-to-end or dip into sections that are particularly relevant to your PER project.
We hope you find it useful!
Mark Jones, Gráinne Walshe, Alison Voice, Alex Crombie
On behalf of the IOP Higher Education Group
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