Transforming upper-division quantum mechanics: Learning goals and assessment

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1179, Issue , 2009, Pages 145-148

  Goldhaber, Steve ^a   Pollock, Steven ^a   Dubson, Mike ^a   Beale, Paul ^a   Perkins, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Physics education research; Quantum mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749091188     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3266699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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