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Cullipher, Steven; Sevian, Hannah – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Students often face difficulties when presented with chemical structures and asked to relate them to properties of those substances. Learning to relate structures to properties, both in predicting properties based on chemical structures and interpreting properties to infer structure, is pivotal in students' education in chemistry. This troublesome…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry
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Chandrasegaran, A. L.; Treagust, David F.; Mocerino, Mauro – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
An alternative program of instruction was implemented with 33 high-achieving Grade 9 students (15-16 years old) in Singapore that overtly focused on the use of macroscopic, submicroscopic, and symbolic representations to describe and explain the changes that occurred during the burning of metals, reactions of dilute acids, ionic precipitations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, High Achievement, Grade 9
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Marais, Paul; Jordaan, Faan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2000
Describes the cognitive steps a student should go through to be able to answer a chemical equilibrium question and investigates student responses to identifying particular symbols and words. (YDS)
Descriptors: Chemical Equilibrium, Chemistry, Coding, Cognitive Processes