Thomas Sean Weatherby

Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Institute for Physics Education

Max-von-Laue-Straße 1

60438 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

I am a postdoctoral researcher in physics education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. My work focuses on digital tools, collaborative learning, and assessment in science education, particularly in the context of electricity teaching and teacher education.

My research investigates how digital tools can scaffold classroom dialogue, conceptual understanding, and assessment in physics education. I am especially interested in digitally supporting group spoken work, developing representational competence, analogical learning in electrical circuits, and provision of integrated physics and pedagogy education for future physics teachers.

selected publications

An analogical simulation for teaching electric circuits: a rationale for use in lower secondary school

Jan-Philipp Burde, Thomas Sean Weatherby, and Arthur Kronenberger

Physics Education, 2021

DOI BibTeX Link PDF

@article{burde2021analogical,
  title = {An analogical simulation for teaching electric circuits: a rationale for use in lower secondary school},
  author = {Burde, Jan-Philipp and Weatherby, Thomas Sean and Kronenberger, Arthur},
  journal = {Physics Education},
  volume = {56},
  number = {5},
  pages = {055010},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {IOP Publishing},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6552/ac03fe},
  url = {https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ac03fe},
}

More than a “Clicker”: Scaffolding Learner-Learner Classroom Talk with a Tablet Application

Thomas Sean Weatherby, Thomas Wilhelm, and Jan-Philipp Burde

In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2022, 2022

DOI BibTeX Link PDF

@inproceedings{weatherby2022more,
  title = {More than a “Clicker”: Scaffolding Learner-Learner Classroom Talk with a Tablet Application},
  author = {Weatherby, Thomas Sean and Wilhelm, Thomas and Burde, Jan-Philipp},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2022},
  pages = {344--347},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {International Society of the Learning Sciences},
  doi = {10.22318/cscl2022.344},
  url = {https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/8303},
}

(Not) Learning Alone with Augmented Reality: Continuing Results From a Comparative Study in an Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Course

Thomas Sean Weatherby, Sebastian Kapp, Michael Thees, and 4 more authors

In The 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), 2024

BibTeX Link PDF

@inproceedings{weatherby2024not,
  title = {(Not) Learning Alone with Augmented Reality: Continuing Results From a Comparative Study in an Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Course},
  author = {Weatherby, Thomas Sean and Kapp, Sebastian and Thees, Michael and Beil, Fabian and Burde, Jan-Philipp and Wilhelm, Thomas and Kuhn, Jochen},
  booktitle = {The 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)},
  number = {Proceedings Book Series - I},
  pages = {344--355},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLNC_QdNRA_kYL7ahWBE54TYgLqHMdpe/view},
}

Talking Circuits: The Development and Assessment of a Digitally-Scaffolded, Collaborative Method for Teaching and Learning Electrical Circuits in Early Secondary Schools

Thomas Sean Weatherby

Doctoral thesis , 2025

DOI BibTeX Link PDF

@book{Weatherby2025a,
  title = {Talking {{Circuits}}: {{The Development}} and {{Assessment}} of a {{Digitally-Scaffolded}}, {{Collaborative Method}} for {{Teaching}} and {{Learning Electrical Circuits}} in {{Early Secondary Schools}}},
  shorttitle = {Talking {{Circuits}}},
  author = {Weatherby, Thomas Sean},
  year = {2025},
  series = {Studien Zum {{Physik-}} Und {{Chemielernen}}},
  number = {394},
  publisher = {Logos Verlag},
  address = {Berlin, Germany},
  isbn = {978-3-8325-6008-9},
  doi = {10.30819/6008},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.25656/01:35000},
}