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Peter F. Lang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
The concepts of electronegativity and classical electronegativity scales are briefly described. Electronegativity scales have practical quantitative applications, and this work suggests activities which can assist students select the scales for use in chemistry applications. It provided examples of the use of an appropriate electronegativity…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Nanette M. Wachter; Evan H. Kreth; Ronald P. D'Amelia – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Keto-enol tautomerization is paramount to understanding the mechanisms involved in many organic reactions and biochemical transformations. Isomerization of an enol to a carbonyl compound is typically introduced during the discussion of the acid-catalyzed electrophilic addition of water to alkynes. The tautomerization of carbonyl compounds to enol…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Prabuddha Bhattacharya; Amit Basak – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Chirality continues to intrigue scientists because of its implications in various scientific areas, including the long-unsolved question of its development and link with the origin of life. Chirality plays a significant role in medicine with the advent of chiral drugs and the consequent importance of asymmetric synthesis. For many undergraduate…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Undergraduate Students
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation Problem-Solving in High School Students
Hyojoon Kim; Sangwoo Ha – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study explores the ontological perspective in analyzing students' problem-solving related to mechanical energy conservation. The research involves 18 high school students whose explanations were qualitatively analyzed using an extended ontological framework. Initially, students predominantly employed matter-based predicates and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Energy Conservation, High School Students, Thinking Skills
Ayesha Farheen; Nia Martin; Scott E. Lewis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Education in organic chemistry is highly reliant on molecular representations. Students abstract information from representations to make sense of submicroscopic interactions. This study investigates relationships between differing representations: bond-line structures, ball-and-stick, or electrostatic potential maps (EPMs), and predicting partial…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Paolo Bussotti – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
The problem here dealt with concerns physics education, and specifically the concept of force. The idea behind this research is that a historical approach to the teaching of such a notion is of great help for the students to fully understand the meaning of this basic physical magnitude. For, most of scientific concepts can be better grasped by the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Kamali Sripathi; Aidan Hoskinson – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Genetic variation is historically challenging for undergraduate students to master, potentially due to its grounding in both evolution and genetics. Traditionally, student expertise in genetic variation has been evaluated using Key Concepts. However, Cognitive Construals may add to a more nuanced picture of students' developing expertise. Here, we…
Descriptors: Genetics, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Evolution
Marina Martínez-Carmona; G. Enrique Ayuso Fernández; Manuel Fernández-Díaz; Francisco Serrano-García; Antonia Plaza Griñán – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Knowledge about genetics is essential to build a society capable of participating in socioscientific and ethical debates. However, this subject remains difficult for students, making it necessary to develop new educational strategies, such as gamification. Thus, two main objectives are established in this work: (a) to design and evaluate…
Descriptors: Genetics, Science Instruction, Gamification, Game Based Learning
Xiaowei Tang; David Hammer – Science Education, 2024
How anthropomorphic reasoning functions in scientific thinking has been a controversial topic. There is evidence it is problematic as well as evidence it can play productive roles, for scientists and for students. In science education, however, the prevailing view remains that it is an impediment. For this study, we have chosen examples of what we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Story Telling
Sidney Gates Spurgeon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This thesis identifies and explains the gaps in prior and current applications of representational competence construct in chemistry. Representational competence (RC) describes a set of skills that chemistry researchers Kozma and Russell observed experts demonstrate when engaging with disciplinary representations (Kozma & Russell, 1997; Kozma…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Science Achievement
Tufan Inaltekin; Tolga Saka – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
In science, one of the most crucial representations for constructing meaning about physical events is graphs. The first graph students encounter in science class is the constant velocity motion graph. Therefore, examining students' understanding of structuring and interpreting these graphs for the relationship between distance, time, and velocity…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Graphs, Motion, Scientific Concepts
Wenyuan Yang; Sihang Chen; Cheng Liu – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Modeling is a core practice in science and is a meaningful way to learn the subject. This article introduces a modeling-based approach that highlights the idea that modeling is an iterative process and integrates the fundamental parts of scientists' work and key suggestions for teaching through modeling. The lesson "The Structure and Function…
Descriptors: Models, Middle School Students, Biology, Science Instruction
Ibrahim Al-Odat – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
This article aims to simplify and facilitate the process of practical teaching of enzyme kinetics by utilizing minimal teaching laboratory requirements. Simultaneously, it ensures that students comprehend the enzyme kinetics experiment effectively. The focus is on teaching students how to estimate the maximum velocity (Vmax) and Michaelis constant…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Kinetics
Kyla Adams; Anastasia Lonshakova; David Blair; David Treagust; Tejinder Kaur – Teaching Science, 2024
Quantum science is in the news daily and engages students' interest and curiosity. A fundamental quantum science concept that underpins medical imaging, quantum computing and many future technologies is quantum spin. Quantum spin can explain many physical phenomena that are in the lower secondary school curriculum, such as magnetism and light,…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Physics, Science Activities
Huifa Han; Yali Qin; Fan Wang; Ning Ding; Fang Fang; Lihong Hu; Hongming Jin; Yinan Zhang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Electrophilic aromatic substitution (S[subscript E]Ar) and nucleophilic aromatic substitution (S[subscript N]Ar) reactions are among the most valuable reactions in the conversion of aromatic rings. While these reactions are typically covered in separate experiments in undergraduate organic courses, a continuous experimental setup elucidating both…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Science Experiments, Science Laboratories