Peer Instruction for Quantum Mechanics

该奖项支持开发、评估和传播本科生量子力学课程中“同行教学”的资源材料，范围从二年级到高级水平。将开发的教材包括形成性评估的“概念测验”、终结性评估的标准化评估工具以及现代物理和量子力学课程的即时教学材料。这种教学方法使学生积极地参与到学习过程中，希望这一材料将被广泛采用。这种以研究为基础的材料将利用学生在学习量子力学方面的误解和困难的发现来开发。对该项目的评估将来自对照研究，将现代物理和量子力学中使用同伴教学的类似课程与没有使用这种教学方法的课程进行比较。这样的研究将在几所学院和大学进行。该项目旨在帮助未来的科学家和工程师更好地为理解量子现象日益重要的环境做好准备。

This award supports the development, assessment, and dissemination of resource material for "Peer Instruction" in undergraduate Quantum Mechanics courses, ranging from the sophomore level to the senior llevel. The resource material to be developed includes "ConcepTests" for formative assessment, standardized assessment tools for summative assessment and material for Just-In-Time Teaching (JITT) for modern physics and quantum mechanics courses. This pedagogical method keeps students actively engaged in the learning process and it is hoped that this material will be widely adapted. The research-based material will be developed using findings of student misconceptions and difficulties in learning quantum mechanics. The assessment of the project will come from control studies comparing similar courses in Modern Physics and Quantum Mechanics in which Peer Instruction was employed vs. those in which this pedagogical method was not employed. Such studies will be conducted at several colleges and universities. It is intended that this project will help better prepare future scientists and engineers for an environment in which an understanding of quantum phenomena is rapidly increasing in importance.