Recent growth in Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) in both the governmental and commercial sectors is opening up jobs for quantum computer scientists and challenging universities to build interdisciplinary STEM pathways to degrees in QIST. We are taking up that challenge, developing evidence-based materials for use in undergraduate QIST courses. The main goals of this project are to
a) develop a set of evidence-based materials (pre- and post-tests and mini-tutorials) to be used in an introductory undergraduate QIST course.
b) answer the research question: What are students’ strengths and difficulties in an introductory undergraduate QISTcourse?
Our research will result in data on students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning skills in QIST, identifying common strengths and difficulties with key QIST concepts and reasoning skills. The results will be used to develop a set of educational materials (pre- and post-tests and mini-tutorials) to help educate undergraduate students studying QIST, expanding the QIST workforce. We are an interdisciplinary collaboration, consisting of researchers and educators in QIST across physics, engineering, computer science and science education. Our results will be made available to others for use in educating the next generation of QIST scientists at other colleges and universities also.
Funded by NSF DUE grant 2235464.
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