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Popova, Maia; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
The purpose of this study was to elucidate and describe students' thinking when making connections between substitution and elimination reactions and their corresponding reaction coordinate diagrams. Thirty-six students enrolled in organic chemistry II participated in individual, semi-structured interviews. Three major themes were identified that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Semi Structured Interviews, Undergraduate Students
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Donnelly, Julie; Hernández, Florencio E. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Physical chemistry students often have negative perceptions and low expectations for success in physical chemistry, attitudes that likely affect their performance in the course. Despite the results of several studies indicating increased positive perception of physical chemistry when active learning strategies are used, a recent survey of faculty…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Phenomenology, Student Attitudes
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Anzovino, Mary E.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Organic chemistry students struggle with reaction mechanisms and the electron-pushing formalism (EPF) used by practicing organic chemists. Faculty have identified an understanding of nucleophiles and electrophiles as one conceptual prerequisite to mastery of the EPF, but little is known about organic chemistry students' knowledge of nucleophiles…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Skagen, Darlene; McCollum, Brett; Morsch, Layne; Shokoples, Brandon – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
The use of online collaborative assignments (OCAs) between two flipped organic chemistry classrooms, one in Canada and the other in the United States, was examined for impact on learners. The intervention was designed to support content mastery, aid in increasing students' communication skills through chemistry drawing and verbalization,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Intervention
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Uzuntiryaki-Kondakci, Esen; Demirdögen, Betül; Akin, Fatma Nur; Tarkin, Aysegul; Aydin-Günbatar, Sevgi – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
This study combined two important frameworks--teacher self-regulation and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)--to reveal whether they were related to each other. To fulfill this aim, researchers utilized a case-study design. Data were collected from five preservice chemistry teachers through semi-structured interviews, lesson plans in the form of…
Descriptors: Self Management, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
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Blonder, Ron; Jonatan, Moshe; Bar-Dov, Ziva; Benny, Naama; Rap, Shelley; Sakhnini, Sohair – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
The goal of this research was to examine the change in the skills, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and self-efficacy beliefs of chemistry teachers regarding video editing and using YouTube videos in high-school chemistry lessons, as a result of a professional development program that focused on editing YouTube videos and the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Educational Technology, Self Efficacy, Beliefs