Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is an instructional strategy involving feedback from students on pre-lecture activities in order to design in-class activities to build on the feedback. We investigate the effectiveness of a JiTT approach, which included in-class concept tests using clickers, in an upper-division quantum mechanics course. We analyze student performance on pre-lecture reading quizzes and in-class clicker questions answered individually and then again after group discussion and compare those performances with open-ended retention quizzes administered after completing instruction on the concepts. In general, compared to the reading quizzes, student performance improved when individual clicker questions were posed after lectures that focused on students' identified difficulties. The performance on the clicker questions after group discussions following individual clicker question responses also improved, as did the performance on retention quizzes administered at a later time. We discuss some possible reasons for the improved performance at various stages of instruction.

Impact of pre-class reading and peer instruction in quantum mechanics

Just-in-Time Teaching and Peer Instruction using clickers in a quantum mechanics course

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