TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing expertise in quantum mechanics using categorization task
AU - Lin, Shih Yin
AU - Singh, Chandralekha
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3266710
DO - 10.1063/1.3266710
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:71749083576
SN - 9780735407206
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 185
EP - 188
BT - 2009 Physics Education Research Conference, PER
T2 - 2009 Physics Education Research Conference, PER: Physics Education Research across Paradigms
Y2 - 29 July 2009 through 30 July 2009
ER -