Assessing Expertise in Quantum Mechanics using Categorization Task
arXiv:1603.02948 · doi:10.1063/1.3266710
Abstract
We discuss the categorization of 20 quantum mechanics problems by 6 physics professors and 22 undergraduate students from two honors-level quantum mechanics courses. Professors and students were asked to categorize the problems based upon similarity of solution. We also had individual discussions with professors who categorized the problems. Faculty members' categorizations were overall rated better than those of students by three faculty members who evaluated all of the categorizations. But the categories created by faculty members were more diverse compared to the uniformity of the categories they created when asked to categorize introductory mechanics problems.
arXiv comment4 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,01.40.gb,01.40G-,1.30.Rr, KEYWORDS: quantum mechanics pedagogy, teaching, learning, physics education research. Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference
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