Session:
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PER: Evaluating Instructional Strategies II
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Teaching Quantum Mechanics through Project-based Learning
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Meeting:
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2014 Summer Meeting: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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1:20PM
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Author:
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Gintaras K Duda, Creighton University
402-280-5730, gkduda@creighton.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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Although there has been interest in problem/project-based learning in the PER community as an active engagement strategy, most work done to date, however, has focused on introductory courses. This talk will explore research on upper-division quantum mechanics, a junior/senior level course at Creighton University, which was taught using PBL pedagogy with no in-class lectures. Course time was primarily spent on lecture tutorials and projects, which included the alpha decay of Uranium, neutrino oscillations, spin oscillations/NMR, and FTIR spectroscopy of HCl. This talk will describe how PBL pedagogy was implement in an upper-division physics course and will explore student learning in light of the new pedagogy and embedded meta-cognitive self-monitoring exercises, and the effect of the PBL curriculum on student attitudes, motivation, and epistemologies.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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Duda-Project-Based Quantum - Duda.pdf
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