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Quantum Mechanics Students' Understanding of Normalization 
  
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K. Watson, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 428-431.
Normalization is a particularly important concept within quantum mechanics due to the probabilistic nature of quantum systems. However, students’ understanding of normalization has…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14661&DocID=4838
Student Understanding of Period in Introductory and Quantum Physics Courses 
  
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T. Wan, P. Emigh, G. Passante, and P. Shaffer, PERC 2016 Proceedings, 380-383.
Time dependence is an important concept in quantum mechanics that has been shown to be difficult for many students. In trying to understand the problems that students encounter, the…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14274&DocID=4628
Energy measurement resources in spins-first and position-first quantum mechanics 
  
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G. Passante, PERC 2016 Proceedings, 236-239.
Research into student understanding of quantum mechanics has primarily focused on the identification of student difficulties and the development of curriculum that can help improve…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14237&DocID=4591
Tutorials on thinking about quantum entities 
  
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Publishers: University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group and University of Colorado at Boulder - Online Resource
This web site provides a series of tutorials developed to support students in transforming their ontological conceptions about quantum phenomena: their sense of whether something is…
https://www.physport.org/curricula/QuantumEntities/
Dynamics of students’ ontological reasoning across contexts in modern physics 
  
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J. Hoehn, J. Gifford, and N. Finkelstein, PERC 2018 Proceedings.
The ways in which students organize knowledge about entities, such as photons and electrons, (or their ontologies) influence their learning of quantum phenomena. In prior work, we…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14798&DocID=4945
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Teaching Qualitative Energy-eigenfunction Shape with Physlets 
  
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and A. Cox, Phys. Teach., 45 (8), 488-491 (2007).
More than 35 years ago, French and Taylor1 outlined an approach to teach students and teachers alike how to understand “qualitative plots of bound-state wave functions.” They…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2798360
Student reasoning about sources of experimental measurement uncertainty in quantum versus classical mechanics 
  
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E. Stump, C. White, G. Passante, and N. Holmes, PERC 2020 Proceedings, 527-532.
Measurement uncertainty and experimental error are important concepts taught in undergraduate physics laboratories. Although student ideas about error and uncertainty in introductory…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15537&DocID=5385
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The Difference Between a Probability and a Probability Density 
  
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A. Kohnle, A. Jackson, and M. Paetkau, Phys. Teach., 57 (3) (2019).
Learning introductory quantum physics is challenging, in part due to the different paradigms in classical mechanics and quantum physics. Classical mechanics is deterministic in that…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5092484
Student perceptions of math-physics interactions throughout spins-first quantum mechanics 
  
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B. Schermerhorn, A. Villasenor, D. Agunos, H. Sadaghiani, G. Passante, and S. Pollock, PERC 2019 Proceedings, 530-534.
One of the purported benefits of teaching a spins-first approach to quantum mechanics is that it allows students to build up quantum mechanical ideas and learn postulates before…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15323&DocID=5235
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“It’s Fundamental”: Quantum Dot Blinking Experiment to Teach Critical Thinking 
  
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L. Frazer, H. Higginbotham, T. Bell, and A. Funston, J. Chem. Educ., 97 (1), 244-252 (2019).
Analysis of stochastic processes can be used to engender critical thinking. Quantum dots have a reversible, stochastic transition between luminescent and nonluminescent states. The…
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00679
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