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Borish, Victoria; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
As quantum information science and technology (QIST) is becoming more prevalent and occurring not only in research labs but also in industry, many educators are considering how best to incorporate learning about quantum mechanics into various levels of education. Although much of the focus has been on quantum concepts in nonlab courses, current…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Study, Science Laboratories, Quantum Mechanics
Corsiglia, Giaco; Pollock, Steven; Passante, Gina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Broadly speaking, many physicists value intuition in their work, and many instructors hope their students develop intuition (while possibly being wary of their initial, unrefined intuitions). These considerations are especially relevant in quantum mechanics, a subject many see as counterintuitive because it is removed from classical everyday…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Quantum Mechanics, Student Attitudes, Intuition
Tu, Tao; Li, Chuan-Feng; Xu, Jin-Shi; Guo, Guang-Can – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In the context of quantum mechanics, students are often asked to use delta functions to solve problems. Here, we investigate three typical problem-solving processes using delta functions: a delta function potential well problem, a position space delta function problem, and a momentum space delta function problem. We studied students'solutions in…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Scientific Concepts
Greinert, Franziska; Müller, Rainer; Bitzenbauer, Philipp; Ubben, Malte S.; Weber, Kim-Alessandro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
With the increasing industrial relevance of new quantum technologies, a well-educated quantum workforce becomes increasingly crucial. The foreseeable lack of workforce raises important questions. What are the expectations regarding the future relevance of second-generation quantum technologies? What are the requirements for the workforce in the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Futures (of Society), Quantum Mechanics
Emily M. Stump; Matthew Dew; Gina Passante; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Measurement uncertainty is an important topic in the undergraduate laboratory curriculum. Previous research on student thinking about experimental measurement uncertainty has focused primarily on introductory-level students' procedural reasoning about data collection and interpretation. In this paper, we extended this prior work to study…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Introductory Courses, Thinking Skills, Physics
Mary Jane Brundage; Alysa Malespina; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Collaborative learning with peers can lead to students learning from each other and solving physics problems correctly not only in situations in which one student knows how to solve the problems but also when none of the students can solve the problems alone. We define the rate of construction as the percentage of groups collaborating on problem…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Science Education, Quantum Mechanics
Peter Hu; Yangqiuting Li; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Research-validated multiple-choice questions comprise an easy-to-implement instructional tool that serves to scaffold student learning and formatively assess students' knowledge. We present findings from the implementation, in consecutive years, of a research-validated multiple-choice question sequence [referred to in this study as a clicker…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Physics, Online Courses
Victoria Borish; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Quantum mechanics is a field often considered very mathematical, abstract, and unintuitive. One way some instructors are hoping to help familiarize their students with these complex topics is to have the students see quantum effects in experiments in undergraduate instructional labs. Here, we present results from an interview study about what it…
Descriptors: Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Undergraduate Students, Educational Objectives
Satanassi, Sara; Ercolessi, Elisa; Levrini, Olivia – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The article sets out to contribute to the educational challenge launched by the second quantum revolution. An approach to quantum computing has been outlined for secondary school students. The approach is shaped as a set of four principles that have been pointed out to design instructional materials to enhance the educational and cultural…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Computer Science Education, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods
Palmgren, Elina; Tuominen, Kimmo; Kontro, Inkeri – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Physics instruction is often unable to support students' self-efficacy. The remote teaching brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has also affected learning. We surveyed an introductory quantum mechanics course for three years during a transition into the spin first approach, adapting the student-centered "prime-time learning" model and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Quantum Mechanics
Corsiglia, Giaco; Schermerhorn, Benjamin P.; Sadaghiani, Homeyra; Villaseñor, Armando; Pollock, Steven; Passante, Gina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
A common task when problem solving in quantum mechanics, including in a spins-first curriculum, involves changing the basis of a given state. Our research in undergraduate quantum mechanics courses at three institutions explores student thinking about basis, basis expansion coefficients, and change of basis in the context of spin-½ systems. Our…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Schermerhorn, Benjamin P.; Corsiglia, Giaco; Sadaghiani, Homeyra; Passante, Gina; Pollock, Steven – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
We conducted a multiyear project across three institutions to develop an instructional tutorial that supports student understanding of change of basis in quantum mechanics. Building from our previous work, we identified learning goals to guide activity development. The tutorial makes an analogy between spin-1/2 states and a Cartesian coordinate…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Quantum Mechanics
Meyer, Josephine C.; Passante, Gina; Pollock, Steven J.; Wilcox, Bethany R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Interdisciplinary introduction to quantum information science (QIS) courses are proliferating at universities across the US, but the experiences of instructors in these courses have remained largely unexplored in the discipline-based education research (DBER) communities. Here, we address this gap by reporting on the findings of a survey of…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Information Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Introductory Courses
Bitzenbauer, Philipp – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We conducted a quasiexperimental study in order to investigate the effect of a teaching concept on quantum physics based on coincidence and correlation experiments with heralded photons on preuniversity students' conceptions of quantum physics (experimental group, N = 150). We compare the results with the traditional curriculum's effect (control…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Mechanics (Physics), Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Wells, James; Sadaghiani, Homeyra; Schermerhorn, Benjamin P.; Pollock, Steven; Passante, Gina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Concept inventories are commonly used tools in physics education research (PER) for evaluating teaching methods. Student responses to concept inventories have been studied using classical test theoretical methods such as factor analysis and network methods such as module analysis. The results of these studies have been used to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Tests, Scientific Concepts, Network Analysis