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9 papers
The challenges of changing teaching assistants' grading practices: Requiring students to show evidence of understanding
Emily Marshman, Ryan Sayer, Charles Henderson +2
Teaching assistants (TAs) are often responsible for grading in introductory physics courses at large research universities. Their grading practices can shape students' approaches t…
Effectiveness of interactive tutorials in promoting "which-path" information reasoning in advanced quantum mechanics
Alexandru Maries, Ryan Sayer, Chandralekha Singh
We have been investigating advanced students' learning of quantum mechanics concepts and have developed interactive tutorials which strive to help students learn these concepts. Tw…
Quantum interactive learning tutorial on the double-slit experiment to improve student understanding of quantum physics
Ryan Sayer, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
Learning quantum mechanics is challenging, even for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Research-validated interactive tutorials that build on students' prior knowledg…
Can students apply the concept of "which-path" information learned in the context of Mach Zehnder Interferometer to the double-slit experiment?
Alexandru Maries, Ryan Sayer, Chandralekha Singh
The ability to use concepts learned in one context to solve problems in a different context (i.e., transfer of learning) is a hallmark of expertise in physics. The majority of the…
The impact of peer interaction on the responses to clicker questions in an upper-level quantum mechanics course
Ryan Sayer, Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh
In this case study, we investigated the effectiveness of peer interaction on responses to in-class clicker questions in an upper-level quantum mechanics course. We analyzed student…
Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems
Charles Henderson, Emily Marshman, Ryan Sayer +2
Physics graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are often responsible for grading. Physics education research suggests that grading practices that place the burden of proof for explicat…