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Measuring student understanding in quantum computing: Development and validation of the Quantum Computing Conceptual Survey
Josephine C. Meyer, Molly Griston, Gina Passante +2
Research-based assessments (RBAs) have proven to be valuable tools in PER, supporting both instructional reform and foundational research. In the rapidly-growing field of Quantum I…
Computer-generated QIS tutorial feedback is valued by students, but does not replicate in-class collaboration
Josephine C. Meyer, Steven J. Pollock, Bethany R. Wilcox +1
PER has consistently demonstrated the effectiveness of small-group tutorials in helping students develop conceptual understanding and fluency, but instructor uptake is limited by r…
Can a CNOT Gate Affect the Control Qubit? Student Resources for Understanding CNOT and Entanglement
Jonan-Rohi S. Plueger, Bethany R. Wilcox, Steven J. Pollock +1
The Controlled-Not (CNOT) gate is essential to algorithms in quantum computing for its ability to entangle qubits. As such, it is important to understand how students learning quan…
Assessing student learning in quantum computing: Lessons from developing a test item on phase kickback
Josephine C. Meyer, Steven J. Pollock, Bethany R. Wilcox +1
A major challenge for quantum workforce development is the need to both understand and reliably assess student learning of quantum information science (QIS) fundamentals. Yet stude…
Education for expanding the quantum workforce: Student perceptions of the quantum industry in an upper-division physics capstone course
Kristin A. Oliver, Victoria Borish, Bethany R. Wilcox +1
As quantum technologies transition out of the research lab and into commercial applications, it becomes important to better prepare students to enter this new and evolving workforc…
Disparities in access to US quantum information education
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Bethany R. Wilcox
Driven in large part by the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018, quantum information science (QIS) coursework and degree programs are rapidly spreading across US institutions.…
Introductory quantum information science coursework at US institutions: Content coverage
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Despite rapid growth of quantum information science and engineering (QIS/QISE) workforce development initiatives, perceived lack of agreement among faculty on core content has made…
How media hype affects our physics teaching: A case study on quantum computing
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Popular media is an unspoken yet ever-present element of the physics landscape and a tool we can utilize in our teaching. It is also well-understood that students enter the physics…
Correlations between student connectivity and academic performance: a pandemic follow-up
Nathan Crossette, Lincoln D. Carr, Bethany R. Wilcox
Social network analysis (SNA) has been gaining traction as a technique for quantitatively studying student collaboration. We analyze networks, constructed from student self-reports…
Investigating student interpretations of the differences between classical and quantum computers: Are quantum computers just analog classical computers?
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Significant attention in the PER community has been paid to student cognition and reasoning processes in undergraduate quantum mechanics. Until recently, however, these same topics…
Effectiveness of an online homework tutorial about changing basis in quantum mechanics
Giaco Corsiglia, Steven Pollock, Bethany Wilcox
Changing basis is a common task when solving quantum mechanical problems. As part of a research project investigating student understanding of basis and change of basis in quantum…
Ethics education in the quantum information science classroom: Exploring attitudes, barriers, and opportunities
Josephine Meyer, Noah Finkelstein, Bethany Wilcox
Quantum information science (QIS) is an emerging interdisciplinary field at the intersection of physics, computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics leveraging the la…
The interdisciplinary quantum information classroom: Themes from a survey of quantum information science instructors
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Interdisciplinary introduction to quantum information science (QIS) courses are proliferating at universities across the US, but the experiences of instructors in these courses hav…
Investigating Unprompted and Prompted Diagrams Generated by Physics MajorsDuring Problem Solving
Michael Vignal, Bethany R. Wilcox
Diagrams are ubiquitous in physics, especially in physics education and physics problem solving. Problem solvers may generate diagrams to orient to a scenario, to organize informat…
Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire
Nathan Crossette, Michael Vignal, Bethany R. Wilcox
Student learning in upper division thermal physics has not been studied to the same extent as in other courses like electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. Studies addressing reaso…
Online Administration of Research-Based Assessments
Ben Van Dusen, Mollee Shultz, Jayson M. Nissen +5
The number and use of research-based assessments (RBAs) has grown significantly over the last several decades. Data from RBAs can be compared against national datasets to provide i…
Retention of conceptual learning after an interactive introductory physics course
Bethany R. Wilcox, Steven J. Pollock, Daniel R. Bolton
The cyclic format of the undergraduate physics curriculum depends on students' ability to recall and utilize material covered in prior courses in order to reliably build on that kn…
Student behavior and test security in online conceptual assessment
Bethany Wilcox, Steven Pollock
Historically, the implementation of research-based assessments (RBAs) has been a driver of education change within physics and helped motivate adoption of interactive engagement pe…
Faculty survey on upper-division thermal physics content coverage
Katherine D. Rainey, Bethany R. Wilcox
Thermal physics is a core course requirement for most physics degrees and encompasses both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics content. However, the primary content foci of th…
Investigating students' behavior and performance in online conceptual assessment
Bethany R. Wilcox, Steven J. Pollock
Historically, the implementation of research-based assessments (RBAs) has been a driver of educational change within physics and helped motivate adoption of interactive engagement…
A cross-context look at upper-division student difficulties with integration
Bethany R. Wilcox, Giaco Corsiglia
We investigate upper-division student difficulties with direct integration in multiple contexts involving the calculation of a potential from a continuous distribution (e.g., mass,…
Correlation Between Student Collaboration Network Centrality and Academic Performance
David L. Vargas, Ariel M. Bridgeman, David R. Schmidt +3
We compute nodal centrality measures on the collaboration networks of students enrolled in three upper-division physics courses, usually taken sequentially, at the Colorado School…
Students' views about the nature of experimental physics
Bethany R. Wilcox, H. J. Lewandowski
The physics community explores and explains the physical world through a blend of theoretical and experimental studies. The future of physics as a discipline depends on training of…
Improvement or selection? A longitudinal analysis of students' views about experimental physics in their lab courses
Bethany R. Wilcox, H. J. Lewandowski
Laboratory courses represent a unique and potentially important component of the undergraduate physics curriculum, which can be designed to allow students to authentically engage w…