Using large language models to summarize student feedback
2025 APS Global Physics Summit
Publications, Talks, and Posters
Last updated: March 2025
Contents
Under Review Publications
- Grade Disparities Associated with Student Demographics in Upper-division Biology Courses Across Multiple Institutions (2024)
- Complex multiple-choice questions are inequitable for low-income and domestic students (and difficult for everyone) (2023)
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
- How researchers calculate students’ grade point average in other courses has minimal impact (PLOS One, 2023)
- Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023)
- Rubric-based holistic review: a promising route to equitable graduate admissions in physics (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022)
- Predictive and Explanatory Models Might Miss Informative Features in Educational Data (Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2021)
- The Physics GRE does not help applicants "stand out" (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021; editor's suggestion)
- Investigating institutional influence on graduate program admissions by modelling physics GRE cut-off scores (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021)
- Characterizing mathematical problem solving in physics-related workplaces using epistemic games (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019)
- Identifying features predictive of faculty integrating computation into physics courses (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019)
- Observed hierarchy of student proficiency with period, frequency, and angular frequency (Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018)
Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
- Faculty Interpretations of Course Equity Data (American Educational Research Association 2023 Annual Meeting)
- Using blogs to make peer-reviewed research more accessible (2022 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings)
- Exploring the relationship between culture and science, engineering, and mathematics graduate students' mental health (American Society for Engineering Education 2022 Annual Conference; won 2022 Graduate Studies Division best student paper)
- Using machine learning to understand physics graduate school admissions (2019 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings; won 2019 PERC Notable Paper Award)
- Models of math use in non-academic workplace settings (2017 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings)
- Integration of mathematics and communication in physics-intensive workplaces (2017 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings)
- A controlled study of stereoscopic virtual reality in freshman electrostatics (2017 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings)
Popular Press
- The gap between physics bachelor’s recipients and grad school spots is growing (Physics Today, 2023)
- Making graduate admissions in physics more equitable (Physics Today, 2023)
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Invited Talks
- Toward a More Equitable and Effective Physics Graduate Admissions Process (2024 APS DAMOP Meeting)
- Making your science understandable (2022 APS March Meeting)
- Why physics instructors choose to include computation in their courses(2021 PICUP Virtual Capstone Conference)
- Addressing rare outcomes in PER quantitative studies (2021 AAPT Virtual Winter Meeting hosted by Underline.io)
Contributed Talks
- Using large language models to summarize student feedback (2025 APS Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California)
- Investigating the impact of post-exam grade-adjustment practices in introductory physics (2024 Summer AAPT Conference in Boston, Massachusetts)
- Using random forests to study physics graduate school admissions (Part of the Machine learning methods in PER session at the 2022 Physics Education Research Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- Who answers complex multiple-choice questions in physics correctly? (2022 AAPT conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- Developing course equity reports to understand and reduce inequity in University of Michigan classes (2022 Data for Public Good Symposium)
- Rethinking Physics Graduate Admissions for a Post-Covid World (2021 APS April virtual conference)
- The Physics GRE Does Not Help "Overlooked" Applicants (2020 AAPT virtual conference hosted by Underline.io)
- Using Machine Learning to Understand Physics Graduate School Admissions (2019 AAPT conference in Provo, Utah)
- Using Machine Learning to Predict Integrating Computation into Physics Courses (2018 AAPT conference in Washington DC)
- Modeling Student Understanding of Period, Frequency, and Angular Frequency (2017 AAPT conference in Cincinnati, Ohio)
Posters
Investigating the impact of post-exam grade-adjustment practices in introductory physics
American Association of Physics Teachers Conference 2024
Exploring how physics and astronomy graduate programs describe their culture using natural language processing
Physics Education Research Conference 2024
Developing a “Program Equity Report”
SEISMIC Summer meeting 2023
Does it matter how we calculate the grade point average in other courses?
SEISMIC Summer meeting 2023
Using blogs to make peer-reviewed research more accessible
Physics Education Research Conference 2022
Who Answers Complex Multiple-choice Questions in Physics Correctly?
American Association of Physics Teachers Conference 2022
Developing a Faculty-Facing Resource for Experiential, Interdisciplinary, Undergraduate Teaching
X-DBER Virtual Conference 2021
Addressing Rare Outcomes in PER Quantitative Studies
American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting 2021
The Physics GRE Does Not Help "Overlooked" Applicants
American Association of Physics Teachers Conference and Physics Education Research Conference 2020
PERbites: Accessible Physics Education Research
2019 ComSciCon-AIP
Using Machine Learning to Understand Physics Graduate School Admissions
American Association of Physics Teachers Conference and Physics Education Research Conference 2019
Using Machine Learning to Predict Integrating Computation into Physics Courses
American Association of Physics Teachers Conference and Physics Education Research Conference 2018
Modeling Student Understanding of Period, Frequency, and Angular Frequency
American Association of Physics Teachers Conference 2017
Models of Math Use in Non-academic Workplace Settings
Physics Education Research Conference 2017