Session: |
Evaluating Students' Learning in a Modern Physics Course* |
Meeting: |
121st AAPT National Meeting:
Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
Location: |
MacLachlan, Room 102 |
Date: |
8/1/00 |
Time: |
10:30 a.m. |
Author: |
Kirsten Hogg, Kansas State
Univ.
785-532-1824,
khogg@phys.ksu.edu |
Co-Author(s): |
Lei Bao, Dean Zollman
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Abstract:
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In spring 2000 the physics
education research group at Kansas State University, implemented a new
modern physics course for physics and engineering majors. The new course
was developed using the results of research into student understanding
of modern physics concepts and student learning using different teaching
methods. An important part of the new course implementation was
designing an evaluation structure to determine how well the new course
addressed known problems with student learning in modern physics and
quantum mechanics in particular. Data for the evaluation was collected
using a number of methods including weekly student journals, written
surveys, and interviews. This talk reports on the results of the
evaluation and provides some insights for improving the new course and
student learning in quantum mechanics.1 |
Footnotes:
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*Supported by NSF grant
#DUE-9652888. 1. Additional information is available at www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/.
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