Physics
Burkholder, E., Hwang, L., Sattely, E., & Holmes, N. (2021). Supporting decision-making in upper-level chemical engineering laboratories. Education for Chemical Engineers, 35, 69–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2021.01.002
Van Dusen, B., Shultz, M., Nissen, J. M., Wilcox, B. R., Holmes, N. G., Jariwala, M., … Pollock, S. (2021). Online administration of research-based assessments. American Journal of Physics, 89(1), 7–8. https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0002888
Jeon, S., Sayre, E., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). What Do Equitable Physics Lab Groups Look Like in Light of Inchargeness? In M. Gresalfi & I. S. Horn (Eds.), 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 2. (pp. 777–778). Nashville, TN: International Society of the Learning Sciences
Smith, E. M., Stein, M. M., Walsh, C., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Direct Measurement of the Impact of Teaching Experimentation in Physics Labs. Physical Review X, 10(1), 011029. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.011029
C. Walsh, D. Kushaliev, and N. G. Holmes, Connecting the dots: Student social networks in introductory physics labs, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Walsh
M. Sundstrom, A. M. Phillips, and N. G. Holmes, Problematizing in inquiry-based labs: how students respond to unexpected results, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Sundstrom
C. White, E. M. Stump, N. G. Holmes, and G. Passante, Student evaluation of more or better experimental data in classical and quantum mechanics, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.White
E. M. Stump, C. White, G. Passante, and N. G. Holmes, Student reasoning about sources of experimental measurement uncertainty in quantum versus classical mechanics, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Stump
S. M. Jeon, Z. Y. Kalender, E. C. Sayre, and N. G. Holmes, How do gender and inchargeness interact to affect equity in lab group interactions?, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Jeon
Z. Y. Kalender, M. M. Stein, and N. G. Holmes, Sense of agency, gender, and students’ perception in open-ended physics labs, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Kalender
E. M. Smith and N. G. Holmes, “Let’s just pretend”: Students’ shifts in frames during a content-reinforcement lab, 2020 PERC Proceedings [Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020], edited by S. Wolf, M. B. Bennett, and B. W. Frank, doi:10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Smith_M
Holmes, N. G., & Lewandowski, H. J. (2020). Investigating the landscape of physics laboratory instruction across North America. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(2), 020162. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.020162
Smith, E. M., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Evaluating instructional labs’ use of deliberate practice to teach critical thinking skills. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(2), 020150. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.020150
Burkholder, E., Walsh, C., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Examination of quantitative methods for analyzing data from concept inventories. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(1), 010141. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010141
Quinn, K. N., Kelley, M. M., McGill, K. L., Smith, E. M., Whipps, Z., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Group roles in unstructured labs show inequitable gender divide. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(1), 010129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010129
Holmes, N. G. (2020). Why Traditional Labs Fail…and What We Can Do About It. In Active Learning in College Science (pp. 271–290). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33600-4_18
Madden, J., Pandita, S., Schuldt, J. P., Kim, B., Won, A. S., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Ready student one: Exploring the predictors of student learning in virtual reality. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0229788. https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0229788
Smith, E. M., Stein, M. M., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). How expectations of confirmation influence students’ experimentation decisions in introductory labs. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(1), 010113. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010113
Smith, E. M., Stein, M. M., Walsh, C., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Direct Measurement of the Impact of Teaching Experimentation in Physics Labs. Physical Review X, 10(1), 011029. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.011029
Holmes, N. G., Keep, B., & Wieman, C. E. (2020). Developing scientific decision making by structuring and supporting student agency. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(1), 010109. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010109
Holmes, N. G., Keep, B., & Wieman, C. E. (2020). Developing scientific decision making by structuring and supporting student agency. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(1), 010109. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010109
Walsh, C., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Assessing the assessment: Mutual information between response choices and factor scores. 2019 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2019.pr.Walsh_C
Stein, M. M., White, C., Passante, G., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Student interpretations of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics experiments. 2019 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2019.pr.Stein
Smith, E. M., Chodkowski, N., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Context of authority may affect students’ evaluations of measurement. 2019 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2019.pr.Smith_E
Walsh, C., Quinn, K. N., Wieman, C., & Holmes, N. G. (2019). Quantifying critical thinking: Development and validation of the physics lab inventory of critical thinking. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 15(1), 010135. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010135
Holmes, N. G., & Smith, E. M. (2019). Operationalizing the AAPT Learning Goals for the Lab. The Physics Teacher, 57(5), 296–299. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5098916
Holmes, N. G., & Wieman, C. E. (2018). Introductory physics labs: We can do better. Physics Today, 71(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3816
Walsh, C., Quinn, K. N., & Holmes, N. G. (2018). Assessment of critical thinking in physics labs: concurrent validity. In A. Traxler, Y. Cao, & S. Wolf (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, D.C. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Walsh
Madden, J. H., Won, A. S., Schuldt, J. P., Kim, B., Pandita, S., Sun, Y., … Holmes, N. G. (2018). Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool for Moon Phases and Beyond. In Adrienne Traxler, Ying Cao, & Steven Wolf (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Madden
Quinn, K. N., McGill, K. L., Kelley, M. M., Smith, E. M., & Holmes, N. G. (2018). Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors. In A. Traxler, Y. Cao, & S. Wolf (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, D.C. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Quinn
Stein, M. M., Smith, E. M., & Holmes, N. G. (2018). Confirming what we know: Understanding questionable research practices in intro physics labs. In A. Traxler, Y. Cao, & S. Wolf (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, D.C. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Stein
Tapping, R., Lepage, G. P., & Holmes, N. G. (2018). Visualizing patterns in CSEM responses to assess student conceptual understanding. In A. Traxler, Y. Cao, & S. Wolf (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, D.C. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Tapping
Smith, E. M., Stein, M. M., & Holmes, N. G. (2018). Surprise! Shifting students away from model-verifying frames in physics labs. In A. Traxler, Y. Cao, & S. Wolf (Eds.), Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, D.C. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Smith
Quinn, K. N., Wieman, C. E., & Holmes, N. G. (2018). Interview Validation of the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC). In 2017 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings (pp. 324–327). American Association of Physics Teachers. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2017.pr.076
Holmes, N. G., Olsen, J., Thomas, J. L., & Wieman, C. E. (2017). Value added or misattributed? A multi-institution study on the educational benefit of labs for reinforcing physics content. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 13(1), 010129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.010129
Biology
Heim, A. B., & Holt, E. A. (2021). From Bored Games to Board Games: Implementation and Outcomes of an Interactive Group Project in the Virtual Ecology Classroom: Game design in the virtual classroom. JMBE
Heim, A. B., & Holt, E. A. (2020). The practioner’s panacea for measuring learner-centeredness? Journal of Learning Spaces, 9(2), 79-92
Holt, E. A., Heim, A. B., Tessens, E., & Walker, R. (2020). Thanks for inviting me to the party: Virtual poster sessions as a way to connect in a time of disconnection. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6756
Antoniou, C., Burnette, K., Christensen-Quick, A., Lewinska, M., Ji, Y., Khalifa, M. M., Nikolaou, A., Srivastava, P., Hollingsworth, B. A., van Rhijn, N., Saurabh, S., Konstantinides, N., Heim, A. B., Moore, E. B., Strong, M., Kosanic, A., Kirshner, S. N., Halder, A., & Waiho, K. (2020). Seeking career clarity. Science, 368(6486), 26-28
Tuosto, K., Johnston, J. T., Connolly, C., Lo, C., Sanganyado, E., Winter, K. A., Roembke, T., Richter, W. E., Isaacson, K. J., Raitor, M., Kosanic, A., Bessone, L., Heim, A. B., Srivastava, P., Hughes, W. P., & Aamodt, C. M. (2020). Making science accessible. Science, 367(6473), 34-35
Arcila Hernández, L.M., Zamudio, K.R., Drake, A.G., Smith, M.K. 2020. Implementing team-based learning in the life sciences: A case study in an online introductory level evolution and biodiversity course. Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6863
Esparza, D., Wagler, A. E., & Olimpo, J. T. (2020). Characterization of Instructor and Student Behaviors in CURE and Non-CURE Learning Environments: Impacts on Student Motivation, Science Identity Development, and Perceptions of the Laboratory Experience. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(1), ar10. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-04-0082
Olimpo, J. T., & Esparza, D. (2020). Active Learning and Conceptual Understanding in Biology. In Active Learning in College Science (pp. 43-57). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33600-4_4
Smith, M. K., Walsh, C., Holmes, N. G., & Summers, M. M. (2019). Using the Ecology and Evolution‐Measuring Achievement and Progression in Science assessment to measure student thinking across the Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education framework. Ecosphere, 10(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ECS2.2873
Smith, M. K., Brownell, S. E., Crowe, A. J., Holmes, N. G., Knight, J. K., Semsar, K., … Couch, B. A. (2019). Tools for Change: Measuring Student Conceptual Understanding Across Undergraduate Biology Programs Using Bio-MAPS Assessments. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.1128/JMBE.V20I2.1787