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| Abstract Title: | Quantum computing assessment: new challenges for the interdisciplinary era |
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| Abstract Type: | Plenary |
| Abstract: | The ability to measure what students are learning (or not) is a crucial component of crafting effective learning environments. In particular, low-stakes, standardized diagnostic assessments can provide a valuable tool for tracking student learning over time and between instructional approaches to identify effective strategies that improve students' understanding of core physics content. The field of physics education research (PER) has created a number of these assessment instruments targeting content from introductory mechanics up to senior-level thermal physics. However, these assessments have historically be developed well after the topical areas they address are fully established. Quantum Information Science broadly, and quantum computing in particular, is a new and evolving field, presenting an opportunity to ground the development of the field, and the educational infrastructure around it, in data on student learning provided a validated assessment is available. We will discuss the development of just such an assessment with an emphasis on how we have tackled the unique interdisciplinary and rapidly changing nature of the field. |
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Bethany Wilcox and Josie Meyer University of Colorado Boulder |
