Resource letter: PER-1: Physics education research

The purpose of this Resource Letter is to provide an overview of research o n the learning and teaching of physics. The references have been selected t o meet the needs of two groups of physicists engaged in physics education. The first is the growing number whose field of scholarly inquiry is (or mig ht become) physics education research. The second is the much larger commun ity of physics instructors whose primary interest is in using the results f rom research as a guide for improving instruction. (C) 1999 American Associ ation of Physics Teachers.