Publications
2021
Wallace, Colin S., Chase Hatcher, Timothy G. Chambers, Seth D. Hornstein, Julia Kamenetzky, and Edward E. Prather, “A New Lecture-Tutorial for Teaching Interferometry to Astro 101 Students,” The Physics Teacher, accepted (2021) [arXiv:2001.10527].
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, John A. Milsom, Ken Johns, and Srin Manne, “Students taught by a first-time instructor using active learning teaching strategies outperform students taught by a highly-regarded traditional instructor,” Journal of College Science Teaching, accepted (2021) [arXiv:2004.09684].
2020
2019
Prather, Edward E. and Colin S. Wallace, “Lecture-tutorials in Introductory Astronomy,” in Astronomy Education, Volume 1: Evidence based instruction for introductory courses, ed. C. Impey and S. Buxner, Bristol, UK: Institute of Physics Publishing, Ltd. (2019) [arXiv: 1806.00452].
Wallace, Colin S., “Developing Peer Instruction questions for quantitative problems for an upper-division astronomy course,” American Journal of Physics, 88(3), 214-221 (2019) [arXiv: 1909.02394].
Raddick, M. Jordan, Edward E. Prather, and Colin S. Wallace, “Galaxy Zoo: Science Content Knowledge of Citizen Scientists,” Public Understanding of Science, 28(6), 636-651 (2019).
2018
Smith, David P., Laurie E. McNeil, David T. Guynn, Alice D. Churukian, Duane L. Deardorff, and Colin S. Wallace, “Transforming the content, pedagogy and structure of an introductory physics course for life sciences majors,” American Journal of Physics, 86 (11), 862-869 (2018) [arXiv: 1709.05229]. Editor’s pick.
Wallace, Colin S., Timothy G. Chambers, and Edward E. Prather, “Item response theory evaluation of the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory national data set,” Physical Review – Physics Education Research, 14(1), 010149 (2018) [arXiv: 1709:05255].
Williamson, Kathryn, Daniel Reichart, Colin Wallace, Edward E. Prather, and Seth Hornstein, “Mapping the Milky Way: A Radio Astronomy-Directed Investigation for Lecture-Based Astro 101 Courses,” in Robotic Telescopes, Student Research, and Education (RTSRE) Conference Proceedings, Conference Proceedings, San Diego, California, USA, Jun 18-21, 2017, ed. M. Fitzgerald, C. R. James, S. Buxner, and S. White, pp. 283-290 (2018).
2017
2016
Wallace, Colin S., Timothy Chambers, Edward E. Prather, and Gina Brissenden, “Using graphical and pictorial representations to teach introductory astronomy students about the detection of extrasolar planets via gravitational micolensing,” American Journal of Physics, 84(5), 335-343 (2016) [arXiv: 1603.06866]. Editor’s pick.
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, Seth D. Hornstein, Wayne M. Schlingman, Timothy G. Chambers, and Jack O. Burns, “A New Lecture-Tutorial for Teaching about Molecular Excitations and Synchrotron Radiation,” The Physics Teacher, 54(1), 40-44 (2016) [arXiv: 1509.01726].
Eckenrode, Jeffrey W., Edward E. Prather, and Colin S. Wallace, “An Investigation into the Correlations between Students’ Written Responses to Lecture-Tutorial Questions and their Understandings of Key Astrophysics Concepts,” Journal of College Science Teaching, 45(3), 65-73 (2016) [arXiv: 1509.03293].
Burd, Gail, Debra Tomanek, Paul Blowers, Molly Bolger, Jonathan Cox, Lisa Elfring, Elmer Grubbs, Jane Hunter, Ken Johns, Loukas Lazos, Roman Lysecky, Drew Milsom, Ingrid Novodvorsky, John Pollard, Edward Prather, Vicente Talanquer, Kay Thamvichai, Hal Tharp, H., and Colin Wallace, “Developing Faculty Cultures for Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in STEM: A Progress Report,” in Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century, ed. G. C. Weaver, W. D. Burgess, A. L. Childress, and L. Slakey, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, pp. 90-102 (2016).
2015
2014
2013
Prather, Edward E., Colin S. Wallace, Johanna K. Teske, Christopher Impey, and Sanlyn Buxner, “Uncovering What Our Students Really Think about Science and Society – Are We Doomed?” in Communicating Science: A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach, ed. J. Barnes, C. Shupla, J. G. Manning, and M. G. Gibbs, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 97-100 (2013).
Eckenrode, Jeffrey, Jackson Welch, Hector Saldivar, Jacqueline Laird, Edward E. Prather, Sebastien Cormier, Colin S. Wallace, Gina Brissenden, G., and CATS., “Lecture-Tutorial Coherency: Student-Supplied Written Responses as Indicators of Future Success,” in Communicating Science: A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach, ed. J. Barnes, C. Shupla, J. G. Manning, and M. G. Gibbs, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 337-40 (2013).
Johanna K. Teske, Edward E. Prather, Colin S. Wallace, M. Meyers, and CATS., “Incorporating Science and Society into the College Classroom,” in Communicating Science: A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach, ed. J. Barnes, C. Shupla, J. G. Manning, and M. G. Gibbs, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 395-98 (2013).
Prather, Edward E., Sebastien Cormier, Colin S. Wallace, Chris Lintott, M. Jordan Raddick, and Arfon Smith, “Measuring the Conceptual Understandings of Citizen Scientists Participating in Zooniverse Projects: A First Approach,” Astronomy Education Review, 12(1), 010109 (2013).
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, and Benjamin M. Mendelsohn, “Astro 101 Students’ Perceptions of Science: Results from the Thinking About Science Survey Instrument,” Astronomy Education Review, 12(1), 010101 (2013).
2012
Schlingman, Wayne M., Edward E. Prather, Colin S. Wallace, Alexander L. Rudolph, and Gina Brissenden, “A Classical Test Theory Analysis of the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory National Study Data Set,” Astronomy Education Review, 11(1), 010107 (2012).
Wallace, Colin S., “Comment on ‘The puzzling reliability of the Force Concept Inventory,’ by N. Lasry, S. Rosenfield, H. Dedic, A. Dahan, and O. Reshef [Am. J. Phys. 79, 909-12 (2011)],” Notes and Discussions, American Journal of Physics, 80(4), 348-9 (2012)
Wallace, Colin S., and Edward E. Prather, “Teaching physics with Hubble’s law and dark matter,” American Journal of Physics, 80(5), 382-90 (2012)
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, and Douglas K. Duncan, “A Study of General Education Astronomy Students’ Understandings of Cosmology. Part V. The Effects of a New Suite of Cosmology Lecture-Tutorials on Students’ Conceptual Knowledge,” International Journal of Science Education, 34(9), 1297-1314 (2012).
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, and Douglas K. Duncan, “A Study of General Education Astronomy Students’ Understandings of Cosmology. Part IV. Common Difficulties Students Experience with Cosmology,” Astronomy Education Review, 11(1), 010104 (2012).
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, and Douglas K. Duncan, “A Study of General Education Astronomy Students’ Understandings of Cosmology. Part III. Evaluating Four Conceptual Cosmology Surveys: An Item Response Theory Approach,” Astronomy Education Review, 11(1), 010103 (2012).
2011
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, and Douglas K. Duncan, “A Study of General Education Astronomy Students’ Understandings of Cosmology. Part II. Evaluating Four Conceptual Cosmology Surveys: A Classical Test Theory Approach,” Astronomy Education Review, 10(1), 010107 (2011).
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, and Douglas K. Duncan, “A Study of General Education Astronomy Students’ Understandings of Cosmology. Part I. Development and Validation of Four Conceptual Cosmology Surveys,” Astronomy Education Review, 10(1), 010106 (2011).
Wallace, Colin S., Edward E. Prather, Douglas Duncan, and CATS, “Understanding and Improving Students’ Knowledge of Cosmology: The Latest Results,” in Cosmos in the Classroom 2010: A Hands-on Symposium on Teaching Introductory Astronomy, ed. A. Fraknoi, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 43-4 (2011).
Wallace, Colin S., and Edward E. Prather, “Engaging Students with Cosmology Lecture-Tutorials: Report on a Workshop,” in Cosmos in the Classroom 2010: A Hands-on Symposium on Teaching Introductory Astronomy, ed. A. Fraknoi, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 141-2 (2011).
2010
Wallace, Colin S., and Janelle M. Bailey, “Do Concept Inventories Actually Measure Anything?” Astronomy Education Review, 9(1), 010116 (2010).
Wallace, Colin S., and Stephanie V. Chasteen, “Upper-division students’ difficulties with Ampère’s law,” Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research, 6(2), 020115 (2010).