Abstract

Literature in physics education shows that students still experience difficulties learning quantum mechanics, although it is now part of the high school curriculum and many research-based proposals are available. Prior works mostly focused on specific misconceptions and a clearer picture of students’ ideas on general quantum concepts is still lacking. We addressed these issues by inspecting, through multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis, the responses given by 408 Italian high school and undergraduate students to a Likert scale questionnaire on quantum physics. From our preliminary results, we can conclude that the majority of students leave high school and enter university without a sound model of the quantum world.

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