Developing and evaluating a tutorial on the double-slit experiment
Physics Education
2016-01-08 v1
Abstract
Learning quantum mechanics is challenging, even for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Interactive tutorials which build on students' prior knowledge can be useful tools to enhance student learning. We have been investigating student difficulties with the quantum mechanics pertaining to the double-slit experiment in various situations. Here we discuss the development and evaluation of a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) which makes use of an interactive simulation to improve student understanding. We summarize common difficulties and discuss the extent to which the QuILT is effective in addressing them in two types of courses.
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@article{arxiv.1509.07740,
title = {Developing and evaluating a tutorial on the double-slit experiment},
author = {Ryan Sayer and Alexandru Maries and Chandralekha Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07740},
year = {2016}
}