Physics Education Research at CU-Boulder





 

Concept Tests and Course Materials from CU Boulder

Below are some course materials used at CU Boulder. For the upper-division materials, we are actively engaged in education research, and these materials are fairly well organized, annotated, and updated. (See www.colorado.edu/sei/departments/physics.htm for more info.) For the lower-division, it's much more informal. At the start, many originally came from Eric Mazur at Harvard (see his Peer Instruction book), and many more were created at CU by Michael Dubson. We now include contributions from other CU faculty. ( NOTE: Since many originated from Eric Mazur's book on "Peer Instruction", please seek appropriate permission if you want to use those in any public or commercial forum)

We are believers in the "open-source" model of educational materials - use what you need, as you like. We will be delighted if you can use any of these in your courses. If you modify/improve them (or find "bugs"), please return the favor by sending us improved materials, so we can keep these links up-to-date and constantly improving. Contact Steven.Pollock at colorado.edu
(And, please do reference original sources when it seems appropriate, especially when publishing!)


COLLECTIONS

Many files below are raw (let us know if you find major issues) If you download and use these in your class we'd love to hear about it, send us a quick email.

Our upper division collections are also kept updated at www.colorado.edu/sei/physics .

The collections below are nearly complete, but we have removed some of the more sensitive materials (largely exams and solutions)

More complete collections (with solutions and exams) are here in our secure section. (For access to these more complete collections, please contact Steven.pollock at Colorado.edu for a password)

Lower Division

Middle Division

Upper Division




NOTE: For more materials (including exams and solutions) contact Steven Pollock for a password, then click here

(For more options, visit our (currently unorganized and largely empty) collection of concept tests from a variety of classes.)