Research in PER at Texas Tech has focused on students' qualitative and quantitative understanding of physics concepts in courses taught by traditional and non-traditional methods, development of a laboratory-based, inquiry-based curriculum (INQ) taught using Socratic questioning pedagogy, assessing pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of Learning Assistants (LAs) in an inquiry-based physics class, assessing students' thinking skills across pedagogies,  graduate students' understanding of symmetry and conservation laws in classical mechanics, and students' understanding of Quantum Computing (QC) at the undergraduate level.

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