Actively Recruiting for:
SPRUCE: Measurement Uncertainty
SPRUCE is designed for introductory physics labs and is to be administered in a pre-instruction then post-instruction implementation, can be administered outside of class, and takes most students under 30 minutes to complete. Shortly after the post-instruction administration, instructors will receive a report outlining student performance along 14 assessment objectives.
Contact: Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
SPRUCE COURSE INFORMATION SURVEY
MAPLE: Modeling in labs
MAPLE is designed to measure the proficiency of students at modeling in either an upper-division optics or electronics lab course. MAPLE is administered online through two links that will be sent to you, one for the pre-test and another for the post-test. The electronics post-survey involves a basic op-amp circuit, and the optics post-survey involves polarizers. The pre-survey for both assessments uses a pendulum as the experimental context.
Contact: Rachael Merritt - rachael.merritt@colorado.edu; Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
MAPLE COURSE INFORMATION SURVEY
E-CLASS: Views about experimental physics
E-CLASS is designed to assess students' views about their strategies, habits of mind, and attitudes when doing experiments in lab classes at all levels. Students also reflect on how those same strategies, habits of mind, and attitudes are practiced by professional researchers. Finally, at the end of the semester, students reflect on how their own course valued those practices in terms of earning a good grade.
Contact: Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
E-CLASS COURSE INFORMATION SURVEY
Survey of Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Quantum Industry
Contact: Kristin Oliver - kristin.oliver@colorado.edu; Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
The Survey of Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Quantum Industry is a survey designed to better understand undergraduate students’ perceptions of, interest in, and preparation for work in the quantum industry. We are interested in distributing this survey to your students to capture responses from a wide variety of students across the United States. While this survey is not intended to provide feedback on your instructional practices, we will be able to share a report of the analyzed aggregated data about your students’ perceptions of the quantum industry with you.
If you are interested in having your students participate in this study, please fill out the following Qualtrics form below so that we can create an individualized link for your course. Note that this link is to a survey for instructors to complete so that researchers can set up the survey for students. We will send you another link for your students once we have gathered the relevant information about your course!
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON QUANTUM INDUSTRY INFORMATION SURVEY
Other Projects:
Educators and Industry Perspectives on the Quantum Workforce
Contact: Shams El-Adawy – shel8529@colorado.edu, Heather Lewandowski – lewandoh@colorado.edu
We are working on an NSF project titled “Education landscape for quantum information science & engineering: Guiding educational innovation to support quantum career paths,” which seeks to acquire large-scale data about quantum information science and engineering (QISE) education. The project uses qualitative and quantitative methods to meet three goals:
- better characterize the knowledge skills and abilities needed for jobs in QISE,
- characterize the landscape of courses, degree programs, and other educational programs in higher education,
- provide insights that will guide educators and program developers who are building our capacity for quantum information science and engineering education.
This is a collaborative project with researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology, supported by NSF grants: 2333073 and 2333074.
Check out more information about the project here:
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs):
Contact: Rachael Merritt - rachael.merritt@colorado.edu, Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
We are developing a framework of effective practices for the design and implementation of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in physics. CUREs offer a promising approach to reducing the participation barriers often associated with traditional research opportunities by providing entire classes of students with access to authentic research experiences. As part of this effort, we have designed and implemented a perovskite photovoltaics CURE in a sophomore-level experimental physics laboratory course. Please contact us for additional information.
- For details on the remote C-PhLARE CURE, which ran during the Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Fall 2021 semesters, please visit the project page.
PhET Simulation with Noise
Contact: Qiaoyi Liu – qili7958@colorado.edu, Heather Lewandowski – lewandoh@colorado.edu
We have helped to develop a new and specially designed PhET simulation named the Projectile Data Lab (PDL) to help students learn about measurement uncertainty by incorporating statistical fluctuations into the simulation. Additionally, the data from the simulation can be easily sent to an online data analysis package called CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform) to create an instructional platform. The goal of these new PhET simulations is to enhance or replace hands-on lab activities designed to instruct students on measurement uncertainty. Feel free to interact with our new simulations on your own. Here are the links:
PER - Resources for Instructors
PER - Resources for Researchers