PhET: Interactive Simulations for Teaching and Learning Physics

By K. Perkins, W. Adams, M. Dubson, Noah Finkelstein, S. Reid, Carl E. Wieman, R. LeMaster. 2006

463 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Synthesis of Discipline-Based Education Research in Physics. (2014, background): “One of the most widely cited projects to develop and test interactive science simulations is the University of Colorado’s PhET project [349].”
Defining Computational Thinking for Mathematics and Science Classrooms (2016, methodology): “The Physics Education Technology (PhET) project is another example of such learning environments, which provides a large collection of web-based models and simulations for teaching STEM content (Perkins et al. 2006; Bryan 2006).”
Teachable Agents and the Protégé Effect: Increasing the Effort Towards Learning (2009, background): “Just as computer simulations of nuclear fusion are physically safer than the real thing ( Perkins et al. 2006 ), avatars can make it psychologically safer to try new things, without experiencing the real consequences of failure.”
The Practicality and Effectiveness of Collaborative Creativity Learning (CCL) Model by Using PhET Simulation to Increase Students’ Scientific Creativity (2018, background): “PhET simulation is a fun and interactive research based science and mathematics simulations that able to represent information in various representations (visual, verbal, and mathematical) (Finkelstein et al., 2005; Perkins et al., 2006; Prahani et al., 2016; Wieman et al., 2010;).”