Brandon James Johnson
Contact Info:
Email: branjohn@umd.edu
Website: www.brandonjamesjohnson.com
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Brandon_Johnson15
About Me:
I grew up in small town North Dakota. I went to North Dakota State University for my undergraduate education. I majored in physics, mathematics, and music. I traveled throughout the west half of the U.S. for a year in Captive Free Central Plains, a Christian band through the mission organization Youth Encounter. I then moved to Maryland and started my graduate education in 2016 at the University of Maryland pursuing a Ph.D. in physics with a research focus in physics education research.
Research Interests:
- I am passionate about teaching and am interested in research topics that help inform my pedagogy and vice versa.
- I am interested in research that ties in my interest in the arts, more specifically music and videography.
- I am interested in how students use online, outside-of-class resources (think YouTube or Chegg): which resources are used, how they are used, and how students and instructors think about learning and ethics in regards to these resources.
- I am interested in how students use aesthetic judgments to help in their problem solving, specifically in regards to convergence while problem-solving.
Currently Working On:
- I am involved in a research team studying the cognition of students who are learning quantum mechanics. We are specifically looking at the ways that students make sense of the physics by way of the mathematics. Ultimately, we are interested in pedagogical questions, trying to find ways to best teach first and second semester quantum mechanics classes to physics and engineering majors.
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