Eleanor Sayre
Research Area
Physics Education Research
- Improving and extending theoretical bases for physics
education research
- Investigating the interplay between physics and
mathematics understanding
- Learning and forgetting in introductory physics classes
- Developmental trends for pre-service physicists
- Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods education
research
Research Support
- National Science Foundation
Recent Selected Publications
- Sayre, E.C. (submitted) "Oral exams as a tool for
teaching", The Physics Teacher
- Sayre, E.C. and Irving, P.W. (accepted) "Unprompted
student-driven metacognitive data from two distinctly different sources",
5th Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16: Metacognition
- Irving, P.W. and Sayre, E.C. (accepted) "Epistemological
Framing: Asynchronous Individuals in Group Problem Solving", Biennial
Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group: Conceptual Change
- Sayre, E.C., Dymek, S., Popham, N., Frame, C., and
Franklin, S.V. (accepted) "A Web-Based System for Between-Student Testing in
University Physics", The second Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special
Interest Group 18: Educational Effectiveness
- Sayre, E.C., Franklin, S.V., Clark, J., and Sun, Y.
(2012) "Learning, Retention, and Forgetting of Newton's Third Law throughout
University Physics",
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research 8, 010116
- Sayre, E.C. and Franklin, S.V. (2011) "Learning,
Retention, and Forgetting in University Physics", American Educational
Research Association 2011 Conference
- Heckler, A.F., Scaife, T.M., and Sayre, E.C. (2010)
"Response Times and Misconception-like Responses to Science Questions",
Proceedings of the CogSci 2010, Cognitive Science Society
- Clark, J., Sayre, E.C., and Franklin, S.V. (2010)
"Fluctuations in Student Understanding of Newton's Third Law",
Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2010, AIP Conference
Proceedings
- Wang, T. and Sayre, E.C. (2010) "Maximum Likelihood
Estimation (MLE) of students' understanding of vector subtraction", Physics
Education Research Conference Proceedings 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings
- Sayre, E.C. and Heckler, A.F. (2010) "What happens
between pre- and post-tests: Multiple measurements of student understanding
during an introductory physics course",
American Journal of Physics 78, (7) 768-777.
- Sayre, E.C. and Heckler, A.F. (2009) "Peaks and decays of
student knowledge in an introductory E&M course,"
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research 5, 013101