The PER group has two major goals:

1. To identify the difficulties that students experience in learning physics concepts at both the introductory and the advanced level;
2. To design, implement, and assess the outcome of changes in curricular offerings/pedagogical methods that are designed to reduce these difficulties.

In recent years, our group has been involved in research in the following areas:

• investigation of student difficulties in learning quantum mechanics and development of interactive tutorials
• research on problem solving and development of interactive web-based tutorials for improving problem solving and meta-cognitive skills of introductory physics students
• role of hands-on activities and peer collaboration in learning physics
• improving student understanding of Gauss's law
• development of assessment tools

Additional Links

Chandralekha Singh

Professor Singh's web site on research and teaching.