Journal Articles

• White Brahmia, Suzanne, Olsho, Alexis, Smith, Trevor I., Boudreaux, Andrew, Eaton, Philip, & Zimmerman, Charlotte (2021).

  Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics.

  Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 17, 020129.

  doi:10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020129

  https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020129

• White Brahmia, Suzanne, Olsho, Alexis, Smith, Trevor I., & Boudreaux, Andrew (2020).

  Framework for the natures of negativity in introductory physics.

  Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 16, 010120.

  doi:10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010120

  https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010120

• White Brahmia, S., Boudreaux, A., & Kanim, S.E. (2020).

  Developing Mathematization with Physics Invention Tasks.

  American Journal of Physics (in press).

  https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02033

• White Brahmia, S. (2019).

  Quantification and its importance to modeling in introductory physics.

  European Journal of Physics, 40(4), 044001.

  doi:10.1088/1361-6404/ab1a5a

  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ab1a5a

• Olsho, A., White Brahmia, S., Smith, T.I., & Boudreaux, A. (2019).

  When negative is not “less than zero”: electric charge as a signed quantity.

  The Physics Teacher (in press).

  http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08686

• Eugenia Etkina, Alan Van Heuvelen, Suzanne White Brahmia, David T. Brookes, Michael Gentile, Sahana Murthy, David Rosengrant, & Aaron Warren (2006).

  Scientific abilities and their assessment.

  Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 2(2).

  https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=4845

• Suzanne Brahmia, & Eugenia Etkina (2001).

  Switching Students ON to Science: An Innovative Course Design for Physics Students.

  Journal of College Science Teaching, 31(3), 183–187.

  http://www.jstor.org/stable/42992220

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

• White Brahmia, S., Olsho, A., Boudreaux, A., Smith,T.I, & Zimmerman, C. (2020).

  A Conceptual Blend Analysis of Physics Quantitative Literacy Reasoning Inventory Items.

  In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 853-858).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME23.pdf

• Smith,T.I., Eaton, P., White Brahmia, S., Olsho, A., & Boudreaux, A. (2020).

  Physics Students’ Implicit Connections Between Mathematical Ideas.

  In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 940-946).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME23.pdf

• Zimmerman, C., Olsho, A., Loverude, M., & White Brahmia, S. (2020).

  Identifying Covariational Reasoning Behaviors in Expert Physicists in Graphing Tasks.

  In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 976-981).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME23.pdf

• Olsho, A., Zimmerman, C., & White Brahmia, S. (2020).

  A framework of covariational reasoning in introductory physics.

  In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 1263-1264).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME23.pdf

• Zimmerman, C., Olsho, A., Smith,T.I., Eaton, P., Boudreaux, A., & White Brahmia, S. (2020).

  Exploring student facility with “goes-like” reasoning in introductory physics.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2020.

  https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=15549

• Smith,T.I., Eaton, P., Boudreaux, A., Zimmerman, C., Olsho, A., & White Brahmia, S. (2020).

  Toward a valid instrument for measuring physics quantitative literacy.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2020.

  https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=15531

• Olsho, A., White Brahmia, S., Zimmerman, C., Smith,T.I., Eaton, P., & Boudreaux, A. (2020).

  Online administration of a reasoning inventory in development.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2020.

  https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=15512

• Boudreaux, A., Kanim, S. E., Olsho, A., White Brahmia, S., Zimmerman, C., & Smith,T.I. (2020).

  Toward a framework for the natures of proportional reasoning in introductory physics.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2020.

  https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=15457

• Canright, J.P., Olsen, J.R, White Brahmia, S. (2020).

  Leveraging virtual reality for student development of force models in the introductory lab.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2020.

  https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=15462

• Smith,T.I., Eaton, P., White Brahmia, S., Olsho, A., & Boudreaux, A. (2019).

  Using psychometric tools as a window into students’ quantitative reasoning in introductory physics.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2019.

  https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=15219

• Zimmerman, C., Olsho, A., White Brahmia, S., Loverude, M., Boudreaux, A., & Smith,T.I. (2019).

  Towards understanding and characterizing expert covariational reasoning in physics.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2019.

  https://www.compadre.org/per/perc/2019/Detail.cfm?id=7830

• White Brahmia, S., Olsho, A., Smith, T.I., & Boudreaux, A. (2019).

  A framework for the natures of negativity in introductory physics.

  In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 68-75).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME22_Proceedings.pdf

• Olsho, A., White Brahmia, S., Boudreaux, A., & Smith, T.I. (2019).

  The physics inventory of quantitative reasoning: Assessing student reasoning about sign.

  In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 992-997).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME22_Proceedings.pdf

• White Brahmia, S., Olsho, A., Smith, T.I., & Boudreaux, A. (2018).

  NoNIP: Natures of Negativity in Introductory Physics.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2018.

• White Brahmia, S., & Boudreaux, A. (2017).

  Signed Quantities: Mathematics Based Majors Struggle to Make Meaning.

  In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on RUME (pp. 1158-1163).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME20.pdf

• White Brahmia, S. (2017).

  Negative quantities in mechanics: a fine-grained math and physics conceptual blend?.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2017.

  https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=14570

• Brahmia, S., & Boudreaux, A. (2016).

  Exploring student understanding of negative quantity in introductory physics contexts.

  In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of RUME (pp. 79-83).

  http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME19v3.pdf

• Brahmia, S. (2015).

  Developing expert mathematization in the introductory physics course: an impedance mismatch.

  In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference On Research, Implementation And Education Of Mathematics And Sciences (2nd ICRIEMS).

  https://faculty.washington.edu/brahmia/media/publications/1505ICRIEMS_Keynote.pdf

• Suzanne White Brahmia (2008).

  Improving Learning for Underrepresented Groups in Physics for Engineering Majors.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2008 (pp. 7-10).

  https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=7981

• Suzanne White Brahmia, & Eugenia Etkina (2001).

  Emphasizing the Social Aspects of Learning to Foster Success of Students at Risk.

  In Physics Education Research Conference 2001.

  https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=4382

Articles Under Review/Revision

• White Brahmia, S., & Thompson, P.W. (2025).

  Modeling with quantities in calculus and physics:A conceptual framework of the fundamental theorem.

  International Journal of Mathematics Education (under review).

Online Curricular Activities

• White Brahmia, S., Boudreaux, A., & Kanim, S.E. (2017).

  Physics Invention Tasks.

  http://faculty.washington.edu/pits

• Etkina, E., Van Heuvelen, A., White Brahmia, S., Brookes, D., Gentile,M., Murthy, S., Rosengrant, D., & Warren, A. (2017).

  Scientific Abilities Rubrics.

  https://sites.google.com/site/scientificabilities/rubrics

• Etkina, E., White Brahmia, S., Zisk, R., Flakker, J., Bugge, D., Robinson, S., & D’Amato, C.and Blackman, M. (2017).

  Physics Union Mathematics.

  http://pum.rutgers.edu

• Lancaster, K., Blanco, J., Reid, S., Barbera, J., White Brahmia, S., Loeblein, P., Parson, R., & Perkins, K. (2011).

  Build an Atom PhET Simulation.

  https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-an-atom

Other Publications

• White Brahmia, S. (2014).

  Mathematization in introductory physics.

  Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University Department of Physics.

  doi:doi:10.7282/T3FB51D8

• National Research Council (2013).

  Adapting to a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities in Undergraduate Physics Education.

  Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

  doi:10.17226/18312

  https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18312/adapting-to-a-changing-world-challenges-and-opportunities-in-undergraduate

• Lindenfeld, P., & White Brahmia, S. (2012).

  Physics, the First Science.

  Rutgers University Press.

  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Physics/gjunMxEgK-gC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

• Lindenfeld, P., & White Brahmia. S. (2012).

  Is the textbook obsolete?.

  APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Spring 2012.

  https://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/spring2012/lindenfeld.cfm

• White Brahmia, S., Docktor, J., & & Mestre, J. (2011).

  FFPER Working Group Report: NRC commissioned report on Undergraduate Physics Education.

  APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Fall 2011.

  https://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/fall2011/scherr.cfm

Articles/Book Chapters Under Preparation

• White Brahmia, S., & Olsho, A. (2021).

  Physics quantitative literacy.

  Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education.

• Olsho, A., Zimmerman, C., & White Brahmia, S. (2020).

  A framework for the natures of covariational reasoning in introductory physics.

  ArXiv e-prints.

• White Brahmia, S, & Boudreaux, A .and Kanim, S.E. (2019).

  Obstacles to Mathematization in Introductory Physics.

  ArXiv e-prints.

  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016arXiv160101235B

• Boudreaux, A., Kanim, S.E., & White Brahmia, S. (2019).

  Student facility with ratio and proportion: Mapping the reasoning space in introductory physics.

  ArXiv e-prints.

  https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08960