Publications, Talks, and Posters

Last updated: January 2022

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Under Review Publications

• Rubric-based holistic review: a promising route to equitable graduate admissions in physics (2021)
• Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics (2021)

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

• 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)
• 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

• 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)

Science Policy Pieces (Peer Reviewed)

• The Possible Expiration of the New START, the Last Nuclear Bilateral Treaty Between the United States and the Russian Federation (Journal of Science Policy & Governance, 2020)

Invited Talks

• 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

• 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

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)