Conveners
Symposium: Contributions from Pilot Projects in Quantum Technology Education as Support Action to Quantum Flagship
- Sergej Faletic
Symposium: Connecting research in physics education, curriculum decisions and teaching practices
- Arturo Marti
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7/5/22, 10:30 AMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolSymposium
In the last decades two-state approaches were increasingly considered useful for introducing quantum physics to students on all levels. Some promising results were reached. However, a thorough evaluation with reliable and validated instruments is still missing. In addition, it could be possible that some two-state approaches are more suitable to some quantum concepts than to others. In order...
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7/5/22, 10:50 AMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolSymposium
For the improvement of quantum physics education at the secondary level, it is important to develop a flexible assessment tool, which is suitable for evaluating the numerous existing teaching concepts that have emerged from physics education research over the last decades. We therefore give an overview of the plans of the QTEdu pilot project ‘Community-based development of the Quantum Concept...
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7/5/22, 11:10 AMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolSymposium
The field of Quantum Science and Technologies (QST) has the potential to generate significant changes in every citizen’s lives, and so a carefully designed approach to its formal and informal education activities is essential. In this contribution, we reflect on the functions of outreach in developing the modern scientific mind, discuss its essential importance in the modern society of rapid...
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Maria Bondani (CNR - Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies)7/5/22, 11:30 AMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolSymposium
The three-year project Italian Quantum Weeks was born from the desire to take the opportunity of the World Quantum Day (April 14) to try to spread the knowledge of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in schools and, more generally, to the entire citizenry. IQWs involves more than 130 researchers, technicians, disseminators, communicators, teachers, belonging to more than 40 research...
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Sergej Faletic7/5/22, 11:50 AMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolSymposium
The GIREP community on teaching and learning quantum physics and the Education section of the Quantum flagship project of the European Union have brought together different stakeholders in the field of teaching quantum physics. From university staff involved in quantum technology and research and with a long history of teaching the topic at university level to researchers and practitioners...
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Arturo Marti () Instituto de Física, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay), Jenaro Guisasola (University of the Basque Country), Ornella Pantano (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy), Paulo Sarriugarte (Donostia Physics Education Research Group (DoPER), Department of Applied Physics, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) Spain), Shulamit Kapon (Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion )7/7/22, 10:30 AMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingSymposium
Abstract. In the PERU symposium we deal about the physics education research and the consequences of its results for physics teaching. The symposium presents four different aspects of physics teaching and learning, but which have in common research-based problem analysis. All four proposals are based on rigorous problem analysis and standard methodology in PER. Thus, their conclusions are not...
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Strategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingSymposium
Building on an extended ethnographic case study of two high school students who work on an engineering project as part of their advanced-level studies of physics (Kapon, Schvartzer, & Peer, 2021), we discuss the affordances and challenges of engaging students in engineering projects as a venue for learning physics at the advanced high school level.
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Strategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingSymposium
The Test of Calculus and Vectors in Mathematics and Physics (TCV-MP) was developed in 2018 as a tool for supporting the teaching and learning of physics in introductory courses at our university. The instrument is a research-based, multiple-choice test aimed at comparing students’ ability to answer questions on derivatives, integrals, and vectors in the mathematical and physics contexts. The...
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Strategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingSymposium
The aim of this contribution is to study the difficulties encountered by first-year university students in understanding the moment of inertia in phenomena of rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis. Here we complete a previous study by analysing open-ended questionnaires carried out with first year students in a calculus-based introductory physics course. The questions were designed...
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Arturo Marti () Instituto de Física, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)Strategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingSymposium
We compared the attitudes and beliefs about science at the beginning of their university degrees using the CLASS (Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey) tool of two groups of students: physical science and life science. Both groups received similar physics courses during their high-school education. We examined the differences in performance in each of the areas that make up the...
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