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Students' Meaningful Learning Experiences from Participating in Organic Chemistry Writing-to-Learn Activities
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Gupte, Trisha; Watts, Field M.; Schmidt-McCormack, Jennifer A.; Zaimi, Ina; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Teaching organic chemistry requires supporting learning strategies that meaningfully engage students with the challenging concepts and advanced problem-solving skills needed to be successful. Such meaningful learning experiences should encourage students to actively choose to incorporate new concepts into their existing knowledge frameworks by…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Student Experience, Student Participation, Organic Chemistry
What Students Write about When Students Write about Mechanisms: Analysis of Features Present in Students' Written Descriptions of an Organic Reaction Mechanism
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Watts, Field M.; Schmidt-McCormack, Jennifer A.; Wilhelm, Catherine A.; Karlin, Ashley; Sattar, Atia; Thompson, Barry C.; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Learning to reason through organic reaction mechanisms is challenging for students because of the volume of reactions covered in introductory organic chemistry and the complexity of conceptual knowledge and reasoning skills required to develop meaningful understanding. However, understanding reaction mechanisms is valuable for students because…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Content Area Writing, Writing Assignments, Teaching Methods