Course Assessments:
SPRUCE: Measurement Uncertainty
SPRUCE is designed for introductory physics labs and is to be administered in a pre-instruction then post-instruction implementation, can be administered outside of class, and takes most students under 30 minutes to complete. Shortly after the post-instruction administration, instructors will receive a report outlining student performance along 14 assessment objectives.
Contact - Gayle Geschwind - gayle.geschwind@colorado.edu, Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
SPRUCE COURSE INFORMATION SURVEY
MAPLE: Modeling in labs
MAPLE is designed to measure the proficiency of students at modeling in either an upper-division optics or electronics lab course. MAPLE is administered online through two links that will be sent to you, one for the pre-test and another for the post-test. The electronics post-survey involves a basic op-amp circuit, and the optics post-survey involves polarizers. The pre-survey for both assessments uses a pendulum as the experimental context.
Contact- Rachael Merritt - rachael.merritt@colorado.edu, Heather Lewandowski - lewandoh@colorado.edu
MAPLE COURSE INFORMATION SURVEY
E-CLASS: Views about experimental physics
E-CLASS is designed to assess students' views about their strategies, habits of mind, and attitudes when doing experiments in lab classes at all levels. Students also reflect on how those same strategies, habits of mind, and attitudes are practiced by professional researchers. Finally, at the end of the semester, students reflect on how their own course valued those practices in terms of earning a good grade.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.