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Session:
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Technologies
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Paper Type:
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Poster
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Title:
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SMASH*: Modern Physics - Developing Questions
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Meeting:
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2016 Winter Meeting: New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Location:
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N/A |
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Date:
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Time:
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9:15PM
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Author:
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Brian May
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
765-494-2660, bwmay@purdue.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Peter Thompson, Brandon Walker, Michael Yannell, Tugba Yuksel
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Abstract:
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SMASH (Scientific Multiple-choice Assessments for Student Handhelds): Modern Physics is an app designed to deliver research-based multiple-choice questions to a student’s handheld. Each question strives to test areas of conceptual difficulty in modern physics as revealed by physics education research and 40+ years of instructional experience. During the summer of 2015, a team of undergraduates who had successfully completed the course, a PER graduate student specializing in college student understanding of quantum mechanics, a PER research faculty, and the professor of the course met regularly to develop ~500 suitable questions. Each question went through a multi-stage analysis to determine their appropriateness for inclusion in the app. An overview of the design process and preliminary results from the use of SMASH: Modern Physics will be presented. A web-based version of the app can be viewed at http://cychosz.com/SMASHphysics/modern/. Downloadable Android and iPhone based versions of the app are nearing completion.
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Footnotes:
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*Scientific Multiple-choice Assessments for Student Handhelds
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