Cedric Linder
Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Physics Education Research
- E-mail:
- cedric.linder@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 516
751 37 UPPSALA

Publications
Recent publications
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction
Part of Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
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Part of European journal of physics, 2023
- DOI for Round and round in circles-shifting relevance structures as students discuss acceleration and forces during circular motion in a vertical plane
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Part of African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, p. 63-76, 2022
- DOI for The Variation of University Physics Students' Experience of Plus and Minus Signs in 1D Vector-kinematics Revisited
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Part of Science Education, p. 1173-1201, 2021
- DOI for Qualitatively different ways of unpacking visual representations when teaching intermolecular forces in upper secondary school
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Part of European journal of physics, 2020
All publications
Articles in journal
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction
Part of Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
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Part of European journal of physics, 2023
- DOI for Round and round in circles-shifting relevance structures as students discuss acceleration and forces during circular motion in a vertical plane
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Part of African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, p. 63-76, 2022
- DOI for The Variation of University Physics Students' Experience of Plus and Minus Signs in 1D Vector-kinematics Revisited
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Part of Science Education, p. 1173-1201, 2021
- DOI for Qualitatively different ways of unpacking visual representations when teaching intermolecular forces in upper secondary school
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Part of European journal of physics, 2020
Developing representational competence: linking real-world motion to physics concepts through graphs
Part of Learning: Research and Practice, p. 88-107, 2020
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Learning to use Cartesian coordinate systems to solve physics problems: the case of 'movability'
Part of European journal of physics, 2020
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Part of European journal of physics, p. 1-28, 2020
- DOI for Variation theory as a lens for interpreting and guiding physics students' use of digital learning environments
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Network analysis and qualitative discourse analysis of a classroom group discussion
Part of International Journal of Research and Method in Education, p. 317-339, 2019
Part of Science Education, p. 887-906, 2017
Part of European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, p. 159-176, 2015
What’s natural about nature? Deceptive concepts in socio-scientific decision-making
Part of European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, p. 250-264, 2015
A social semiotic approach to identifying critical aspects
Part of International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, p. 302-316, 2015
Part of European Journal of Engineering Education, p. 235-255, 2015
- DOI for Considering student retention as a complex system: a possible way forward for enhancing student retention
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Part of NorDiNa, p. 169-179, 2015
Part of European journal of physics, 2015
Part of European journal of physics, 2015
Physics Students' Social Media Learning Behaviours and Connectedness
Part of International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence, p. 16-35, 2015
Sandbox University: Estimating Influence of Institutional Action
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Unpacking physics representations: towards an appreciation of disciplinary affordance
Part of Physical Review Special Topics, 2014
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Part of Physical Review Special Topics, 2014
- DOI for Extending the theoretical framing for physics education research: An illustrative application of complexity science
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Introducing the anatomy of disciplinary discernment: an example from astronomy
Part of European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, p. 167-182, 2014
A new approach to modelling student retention through an application of complexity thinking
Part of Studies in Higher Education, p. 68-86, 2014
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Who needs 3D when the Universe is flat?
Part of Science Education, p. 412-442, 2014
Disciplinary discourse, representation, and appresentation in the teaching and learning of science
Part of European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, p. 43-49, 2013
Part of International Journal of Science Education, p. 2299-2330, 2013
Part of International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, p. 625-650, 2013
Penetrating a wall of introspection: a critical attrition analysis.
Part of Cultural Studies of Science Education, p. 87-115, 2013
Part of European journal of physics, p. 657-666, 2012
- DOI for Exploring the role of physics representations: an illustrative example from students sharing knowledge about refraction
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Part of Instructional science, p. 513-526, 2011
Being a student again: a narrative study of a teacher's experience
Part of Teaching in Higher Education, p. 423-433, 2010
Learning in physics by doing laboratory work: towards a new conceptual framework
Part of Gender and Education, p. 129-144, 2009
Part of Instructional science, p. 273-292, 2009
- DOI for The learners’ experience of variation: Following students’ threads of learning physics in computer simulation sessions
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The experience of interacting with technological artefacts
Part of European Journal of Engineering Education, p. 295-303, 2009
Part of European Journal of Engineering Education, p. 369-381, 2009
Part of Education as Change, p. 277-291, 2009
SimChemistry as an active learning tool in chemical education.
Part of Chemistry Education Research and Practice, p. 277-284, 2008
Bilingual Scientific Literacy?: The Use of English in Swedish University Science Courses
Part of Nordic Journal of English Studies, p. 145-161, 2008
Part of Journal of Research in Science Teaching, p. 27-49, 2008
- DOI for A Disciplinary Discourse Perspective on University Science Learning: Achieving fluency in a critical constellation of modes
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Part of NorDiNa, p. 15-28, 2007
Learning and the variation in focus among physics students when using a computer simulation
Part of NorDiNa, p. 3-14, 2007
Learning physics as a whole: On supporting students making sense of their studies
Part of NorDiNa, p. 163-174, 2007
Mot bättre undervisning och lärande i fysik.
Part of Fysikaktuellt, p. 23, 2007
Improving students' self-assessment of numerical analysis projects.
Part of Computing in Science and Engineering, p. 92-95, 2007
Part of Metacognition and Learning, p. 41-56, 2007
Using Variation to Enhance Learning in Engineering
Part of International Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
Language and the Experience of Learning University Physics in Sweden
Part of European journal of physics, p. 553-560, 2006
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University students' ideas about data processing and data comparison in a physics laboratory course
Part of NorDiNa, p. 40-53, 2006
Using a variation approach to enhance physics learning in a college classroom.
Part of The Physics Teacher, p. 589-592, 2006
Part of International Review of Economics Education, p. 28-45, 2006
Students’ Expectations of Teaching in Undergraduate Physics.
Part of International Journal of Science Education, 2005
Equipment issues regarding the collection of video data for research.
Part of Physics Review: Special Topics Physics Education Research, 2005
Learning through Simulation: Student Engagement
Part of Chemical Engineering Education, p. 288-295, 2005
Part of European Journal of Physics, p. 47-59, 2005
Books
Change in Science Teaching: Lessons from a South African Township Classroom
Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2006
Chapters in book
Social Semiotics in University Physics Education
Part of Multiple Representations in Physics Education, p. 95-122, Springer, 2017
Att välja lämpliga semiotiska resurser.
Part of Scientific literacy: teori och praktik, p. 59-70, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2013
Part of Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy, p. 106-124, Routledge, 2011
Aktiverande problemlösningsövningar i grupp.
Part of Att undervisa med vetenskaplig förankring – i praktiken!, p. 103-113, Universitetstryckeriet, 2010
Part of Contemporary Science Education Research: Learning and Assessment., p. 123-128, Pegem Akademi., 2010
Disciplinära diskurser i naturvetenskap och matematik.
Part of Att undervisa med vetenskaplig förankring – i praktiken!, p. 41-47, Universitetstryckeriet, 2010
Part of Språkvård och språkpolitik, p. 195-212, Språkrådet/Norstedts, 2010
Disciplinary learning in a second language: A case study from university physics
Part of Researching Content and Language Integration in Higher Education, p. 161-171, Maastricht University Language Centre, 2007
Widening (Epistemological) Access: Two Undergraduate Science Courses.
Part of Curriculum Responsiveness - case studies in higher education, 2004
On the methodology of 'phenomenography' as a science education research tool
Part of Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society, p. 31-41, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
Conference papers
Towards understanding learning challenges involving sign convention in introductory level kinematics
Part of 2018 Physics Education Research Conference, 2019
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Variation and messiness in physics students' use of open-ended software
2019
A new explanation for why PER curriculum materials work
2019
2019
Problem solving and coordinate systems: It's not all about complicated calculations
2018
Students' understanding of algebraic signs: An underestimated learning challenge?
2018
2018
Studenters användning av semiotiska resurser: Hur studenter skapar mening kring cirkelrörelse
2018
Physics students learning about abstract mathematical tools when engaging with “invisible” phenomena
Part of 2017 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, p. 408-411, 2017
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Towards modelling formal learning in terms of the multimodal emergence of transduction.
2017
Teaching the movability of coordinate systems: Discovering disciplinary affordances
2017
The IOLab and magnetic Field – Magnetic north versus actual direction
2017
Coordinating multiple resources to learn physics
2017
2017
Teaching and Learning in University Physics: A Social Semiotic Approach
2016
Viewing the representations used in physics teaching in new ways.
2016
Categories of influence: the case of light and sound in physics
Part of Part of an invited seminar on: Content-focused research on student and teacher learning in the field of optics, 2015
Teachers' use and views of visual representations when teaching chemical bonding
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
Reverse rankshift: Towards an appreciation of the disciplinary affordances of representations
2014
2014
On the Disciplinary Affordances of Semiotic Resources
p. 54-55, 2014
The Concept of Disciplinary Affordance
p. 20, 2014
Educational challenges that emerge from a discursive view of learning physics
2014
Learning in terms of the semiotic enactment of patterns of disciplinary-relevant aspects
2014
Variation as a method for perceiving the disciplinary affordances of physics representations
2014
What do teachers of astronomy need to think about?
2013
Awareness of the three dimensional structure of the Universe
2013
Awareness of the three dimensional structure of the Universe.
2013
Making physics learning possible: exploring a variation perspective on representations.
2013
The overlooked challenge of learning to extrapolate three-dimensionality.
2013
2013
University teachers’ professional development through a focus group approach.
2013
2013
2013
The nature-nurture conflict – A part of biology education?
2013
2013
2013
The role of visual representations when teaching chemical bonding: Teachers' reflections
2013
Who needs 3D when the Universe is flat?
2012
2012
2012
Choosing appropriate resources: investigating students’ scientific literacy
2012
Who needs 3D when the Universe is flat?
2012
Dimensions of variation vis-à-vis complex concepts
2012
Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century: Realities and Possibilities of Social Media
2012
Googling Physics: Social Media and Science Learning
2012
Which representation is best? How students use representational information in problem solving
2012
2011
Part of E-Book Proceedings of the ESERA 2011 Conference, p. 57-63, 2011
2011
Using complexity theory to develop a new model of student retention
Part of Proceedings of the Research in Engineering Education Symposoum 2011, 2011
”Det löser sig under studiernas gång”
2010
Part of Multimodality and Learning International Conference, London, United Kingdom., 2010
Perceptivism and Representation in a Discourse Model of Science Learning
Part of Keynote Presentation in the Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education., p. 35-47, 2010
Students self-evaluations of themselves as disciplinary practitioners
Part of Paper presented at the GIREP-EPEC (International Research Group on Physics Teaching) Conference, University of Leicester, Great Britain, 17-21 August., 2009
Teaching and learning science: Disciplinary knowledge and representation
Part of Keynote paper published in the Proceedings of the Frontiers in Science Education Research Conference, FISER''09, Eastern Mediterranean Univesity, Famagusta, North Cyprus, 22-24 March., p. 15-27, 2009
Part of Paper presented at the ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 31 August - 4 September, 2009
Exploring Language Perspectives
Part of Paper presented at the symposium 'Exploring the landscape of scientific literacy: visions for research and practice', at the ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 31 August - 4 September, 2009
Part of Keynote presentation at the 'Konferens i universtietspedagogisk utveckling', Uppsala, October., 2009
Part of Poster presented at the European Physics Education Network's (EUPEN) 10th Jubilee General Forum, Polana Brasov, Romania, 4-6 September, 2008
Part of Paper presented at the Engineering Education Development Conference, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 26-27 November., 2008
Part of Paper presented at the Beyond Borders of Scientific Literacy: International Perspectives on New Directions for Policy and Practice Symposium at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Congress Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 31 - June 8., 2008
Part of Paper presented at the Nätverk och Utveckling 2008 Lärande i en ny tid - samtal om undervisning i högre utbildning Conference, Kalmar, Sweden, 7-9 May., 2008
Learning through English: further insights from a case study in Swedish university physics
Part of Paper presented at the Nätverk och Utveckling 2008 Lärande i en ny tid - samtal om undervisning i högre utbildning Conference, Kalmar, Sweden, 7-9 May., 2008
Why is it so important to start looking at teaching and learning with new insights?
Part of Presentation at the Scholarship of University Teaching and Learning National Workshop III - Teachers developing their practice using science education research, Göteborg, Sweden, 23-24 October, 2008
Thinking about representation in our teaching
Part of Presentation at the Scholarship of University Teaching and Learning National Workshop III - Teachers developing their practice using science education research, Göteborg, Sweden, 23-24 October, 2008
Part of Gender and Education Association Conference, Dublin, 2007
Disciplinary learning in a second language: A case study from university physics.
Part of 12th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Budapest, Hungary, 2007
Theory in motion. The phenomenographic approach.
Part of Plenary talk at the Foundations and Frontiers in Physics Education Research Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2007
Part of EARLI SIG2 Conference, Text and Graphics Representations, University of Nottingham, England, 2006
Languages, Modality and Disciplinary Knowledge.
Part of 2nd International Conference on Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education. University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands., 2006
Learning in a Second Language. Two Case Studies from University Physics.
Part of 2nd International Conference on Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education. University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands., 2006
Gendered identities in the physics student laboratory.
Part of The Gender and Science and Technology 12th International Conference, Brighton, England., 2006
Improving Students' Self-assessment of Numerical Analysis Projects.
Part of American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Syracuse, NY., 2006
Learning Through Computer Simulation.
Part of SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) 34th Annual Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 2006
Learning through Variation: A New Way to View Learning.
Part of SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) 34th Annual Conference, Uppsala, Sweden., 2006
Learners' Conceptions of Technology
Part of 11th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2005
Crafting of teaching practice and physics students' perceptions of quality teaching
Part of 11th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2005
Learning through variation: A new way to view learning
Part of 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, 2005
Towards a Concept Inventory for One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics
Part of American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005
Probability as a Conceptual Hurdle to Understanding One-Dimensional Quantum Tunneling
Part of American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005
Metacognition in the student laboratory: Is increased metacognition necessarily better?
Part of 11th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Nicosia, Cyprus., 2005
Female Physics Majors' Experiences of Doing University Laboratory Work.
Part of American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah., 2005
Situating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in University Physics.
Part of International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Vancouver, Canada., 2005
Looking for Links between Learning and the Discursive Practices of University Science.
Part of 11th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Nicosia, Cyprus., 2005
Part of 11th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Nicosia, Cyprus., 2005
Language, Bandwidth and the Shared Space of Learning
Part of EARLI SIG 9 Conference, Phenomenography and Variation Theory Go to School, Göteborg, Sweden, 2004
Conference proceedings (editor)
Manuscripts (preprints)
Other
Book Review: Thinking in Physics: The Pleasure of Reasoning and Understanding
Part of European journal of physics, 2015
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2010