Dr Antje Kohnle
Senior Lecturer
Research areas
My research is in physics education. My main interests focus on the research-based development of interactive simulations and activities for the learning and teaching of quantum mechanics. I lead the St Andrews Quantum Mechanics Visualization project (QuVis, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics/quvis), and developed simulations and accompanying activities for the Institute of Physics Quantum Physics resources (http://quantumphysics.iop.org). Research interests include representational learning and the development of representational competence, how different visualizations influence students’ models of physical situations, the teaching of interpretive and conceptual aspects of quantum mechanics, research-based resource development for student difficulties in quantum mechanics and optimizing simulations and activities to promote engaged exploration and learning. I am also interested in student-generated content in quantum mechanics courses, in particular using Peerwise.
Selected publications
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Open access
Sketching to support visual learning with interactive tutorials
Kohnle, A., Ainsworth, S. & Passante, G., Dec 2020, In: Physical Review Physics Education Research. 16, 2, 21 p., 020139 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enhancing student visual understanding of the time evolution of quantum systems
Passante, G. & Kohnle, A., 13 Feb 2019, In: Physical Review Physics Education Research. 15, 1, 14 p., 010110.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Characterizing representational learning: a combined simulation and tutorial on perturbation theory
Kohnle, A. & Passante, G., 28 Nov 2017, In: Physical Review Physics Education Research. 13, 2, 13 p., 020131.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A new introductory quantum mechanics curriculum
Kohnle, A., Bozhinova, I., Browne, D., Everitt, M., Fomins, A., Kok, P., Kulaitis, G., Prokopas, M., Raine, D. & Swinbank, E., Jan 2014, In: European Journal of Physics. 35, 1, 9 p., 015001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review