Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Paradigms in Physics Education Research   In this paper, we describe two paradigms in physics education research (PER):
recurrence-oriented and case-oriented PER. We connect theory on research
methodologies in the social sciences to interviews with physics education
researchers and examples of published PER to articulate the specific
assumptions of recurrence- and case-oriented PER. We show that the different
assumptions made in these two paradigms bear out in specific aims and research
designs taken up by physics education researchers. In particular,
recurrence-oriented research seeks reproducible, representative patterns and
relationships; human behavior is modeled as governed by lawful (albeit
probabilistic) relationships. Case-oriented research, in contrast, seeks to
refine and develop theory by linking that theory to cases; human action is
assumed to be shaped by the meanings that participants make of their local
environments. We briefly offer examples in which researchers take up both the
recurrence- and case-oriented research paradigms.

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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an