| 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 |
| Abstract: | 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: | *Supported by NSF grant #DUE-9652888. 1. Additional information is available at www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/. |