Website

Education research interests

Physics teaching innovations:

Information and communication technologies & physics teaching.
Introduction of statistical and probabilistic methods in secondary school, college and university (first year) physics courses.
Reality immersive physics teaching. Out-of-classroom physics teaching.
Introductory courses as a link between General and Higher Education.
Development of professional competences from first-year physics university courses.
Low cost technologies for physics teaching experiments in developing countries.
Applied mathematics and education development.
Development of strategies and tools for on-line and home-made physics teaching experiments.

Quantitative research in Higher Education:

Academic credit quantitative analysis.
Learning analytics.
Curriculum Analytics Approach to Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
Grade inflation phenomenon.

Selected publications (more on the list of publications)

Relationship between quality assurance performance indicators and curriculum design
L. Velázquez, B. Atenas, N. Cruz Hernández, J. C. Castro Palacio, J. A. Monsoriu
Proceedings of the 19th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2025), Valencia, Spain. 3-5 March, 2025.

An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression
L. Velazquez, B. Atenas, and J. C. Castro-Palacio.
Studies in Higher Education, 410-440, 2023.

Quantitative methods to determine the student workload. I. Empirical study based on digital platforms
L. Velázquez-Abad, B. Atenas, J. C. Castro-Palacio.
Chaos. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 32, pp. 103130, 2022.

A Wireless Li-Fi-Based Signal Generator and Its Use in a Series RC Circuit
F. M. Muñoz-Pérez et al.
Phys. Teach. 62, 426–427, 2024.

RLC series circuit made simple and portable with smartphones
Ives Torriente-García, Arturo C Martí, Martín Monteiro, Cecilia Stari, Juan C Castro-Palacio and Juan A Monsoriu
Phys. Educ. 59 (2024) 015016 (6pp)

Acoustic determination of g by tracking a free-falling body using a smartphone as a ‘sonar’
Camila F. Marín Sepúlveda, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Marcos H. Giménez, and Juan A. Monsoriu, Phys. Educ. 58 035011 (2023).
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/5.0097792

Acoustic characterization of magnetic braking with a smartphone
Camila F. Marín Sepúlveda, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Isabel Salinas, and Juan A. Monsoriu, The Physics Teacher 60, 706 (2022).
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/5.0097792

Characterization of linear light sources with the smartphone’s ambient light sensor
I. Salinas, M. H. Giménez, J.A. Monsoriu, and J. C. Castro-Palacio, The Physics Teacher 56, 562 (2018).
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5064575

Direct visualization of mechanical beats by means of an oscillating smartphone
M. H. Giménez, J. C. Castro-Palacio, and J. A. Monsoriu, The Physics Teacher 55 (2017) 424.
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5003745

Diffraction and spatial structure of electronic components of everyday use: motivating experiences for engineering students
J. J. Barreiro, A. Pons, J. C. Barreiro, J. C. Castro-Palacio, J. A. Monsoriu, Am. J. Phys. 82 (2014) 257-261.
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.4830043

Cover of Volume 82, Issue 3, March 2014, American Journal of Physics.
http://aapt.scitation.org/toc/ajp/current

A quantitative analysis of coupled oscillations using mobile accelerometer sensors
J. C. Castro-Palacio, L. Velázquez-Abad, F. Giménez, J. A. Monsoriu, Eur. J. Phys. 34 (2013) 737–744.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/34/3/737

Highlighted in Advances In Engineering website.
http://advanceseng.com/applied-physics/quantitative-analysis-coupled-oscillations-using-mobile-accelerometer-sensors

Using the mobile phone acceleration sensor in Physics experiments: free and damped harmonic oscillations
J. C. Castro-Palacio, L. Velázquez-Abad, M. H. Giménez, J. A. Monsoriu, Am. J. Phys. 81 (2013) 472-475.
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.4793438

Pioneer article on smartphone sensors and Physics teaching experiments in Higher Education.

You can find more on SmartPhysics project website.