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Gulacar, Ozcan; Eilks, Ingo; Bowman, Charles R. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
This paper reports a comparison of a group of higher-and lower-achieving undergraduate chemistry students, 17 in total, as separated on their ability in stoichiometry. This exploratory study of 17 students investigated parallels and differences in the students' general and domain-specific cognitive abilities. Performance, strategies, and mistakes…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry
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Devetak, Iztok; Glazar, Sasa Aleksij – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Submicrorepresentations (SMRs) are a powerful tool for identifying misconceptions of chemical concepts and for generating proper mental models of chemical phenomena in students' long-term memory during chemical education. The main purpose of the study was to determine which independent variables (gender, formal reasoning abilities, visualization…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Misconceptions, Gender Differences, Cognitive Ability