2025 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2025

Session

(DPE-DQI) T3-7 Joint Session on Quantum Education | Session conjointe sur l'éducation quantique (DEP-DIQ)

T3-7

10 Jun 2025, 16:15

Conveners

(DPE-DQI) T3-7 Joint Session on Quantum Education | Session conjointe sur l'éducation quantique (DEP-DIQ)

• Ania Harlick (University of Toronto)

280. Making the Quantum Leap: Experiments in Quantum Physics Education

Patrick Clancy

10/06/2025, 16:15

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Quantum mechanics is one of the central pillars of modern physics. However, for a variety of reasons - conceptual, mathematical, and philosophical - many students struggle to master this topic at the undergraduate level. In this talk, I will describe several ongoing projects at McMaster related to quantum physics education. I will present the preliminary results from our Upper Year Quantum...

263. Quantum PER: A Brief Review

Carolyn Sealfon (Minerva University)

10/06/2025, 16:45

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

In honour of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), I will review the physics education research (PER) on learning quantum mechanics, with a focus on introductory courses. This brief overview will include examples of common conceptual difficulties with quantum physics and strategies to guide students to overcome them to generate robust mental models.

316. Qubits vs Waves - what works better for introductory quantum mechanics?

Daria Ahrensmeier

10/06/2025, 17:00

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

Introductory Quantum Mechanics has traditionally been taught in Modern Physics courses, starting with the wave formalism. This approach requires students to learn new physics content, which is quite abstract and sometimes counterintuitive, while applying mathematical techniques most of them have not mastered yet. To avoid this unnecessary complication, we have redesigned our introductory...

317. Targeted Crowdsourcing as a PER tool - an Experiment

Daria Ahrensmeier, Shania Smagh (Simon Fraser University)

10/06/2025, 17:15

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

Physics Education Research (PER) requires data collection from systems that are usually not confined to a lab - humans. A conference is a unique opportunity to question not only individual physicists, but to initiate and observe interactions. In this experiment, we will prepare our systems (the audience) with a brief introduction on known misconceptions in quantum mechanics. Then, we will...