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Kohn, Kathryn P.; Underwood, Sonia M.; Cooper, Melanie M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Despite the number of university students who take courses in multiple science disciplines, little is known about how they connect concepts between disciplines. Energy is a concept that underlies all scientific phenomena and, as such, provides an appropriate context in which to investigate student connections and misconnections across disciplines.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Biology, Science Instruction, Energy
Lamichhane, Roshan; Reck, Cathrine; Maltese, Adam V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Misconceptions are the "the old, the bad, and the ugly" prior knowledge, ideas or conceptions that the learners have that hinder their further learning in science. Several types of misconceptions that undergraduate students hold about reaction coordinate diagrams (from here on we use the term "reaction coordinate diagrams" and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Multiple Choice Tests, Interviews, Undergraduate Students
Shah, Lisa; Rodriguez, Christian A.; Bartoli, Monica; Rushton, Gregory T. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Instructional strategies that support meaningful student learning of complex chemical topics are an important aspect of improving chemistry education. Adequately assessing the success of these approaches can be supported with the use of aligned instruments with established psychometrics. Here, we report the implementation and assessment of one…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Bong, Anita Yung Li; Lee, Tien Tien – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2016
The purpose of this study is to identify the Form Four students' misconceptions in the electrolysis of molten compounds and aqueous solutions. The respondents were 60 Form Four students from two secondary schools in Sibu, Sarawak. The two instruments used in this study were an open-ended electrochemistry assessment and interview protocol. This…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Students
Erman, Erman – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This study aims to identify students' misconceptions regarding covalent bonds. Seventy-seven graduate students in the middle of Indonesia participated in the study. Data were collected in three stages. First, misconceptions were identified by using the Semi Open Diagnostic Test. Ten students who experienced the worst misconceptions were…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Graduate Students
DeKorver, Brittland K.; Choi, Mark; Towns, Marcy – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Chemical demonstration shows are a popular form of informal science education (ISE), employed by schools, museums, and other institutions in order to improve the public's understanding of science. Just as teachers employ formative and summative assessments in the science classroom to evaluate the impacts of their efforts, it is important to assess…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Middle Schools
Luxford, Cynthia J.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
Chemistry students encounter a variety of terms, definitions, and classification schemes that many instructors expect students to memorize and be able to use. This research investigated students' descriptions of ionic and covalent bonding beyond definitions in order to explore students' knowledge about chemical bonding. Using Johnstone's Multiple…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Misconceptions, Definitions, Science Education
Linenberger, Kimberly J.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2014
Biochemistry is a visual discipline that requires students to develop an understanding of numerous representations. However, there is very little known about what students actually understand about the representations that are used to communicate ideas in biochemistry. This study investigated biochemistry students' understanding of multiple…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biochemistry, Interviews, Scientific Concepts
Espinosa, Allen A.; Marasigan, Arlyne C.; Datukan, Janir T. – Teaching Science, 2016
This study explored how students visualise the states and classifications of matter with the use of scientific models. Misconceptions of students in using scientific models were also identified to formulate a teaching framework. To elicit data in the study, a Visual Conception Questionnaire was administered to thirty-four (34), firstyear, general…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
Luxford, Cynthia J.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Teachers use multiple representations to communicate the concepts of bonding, including Lewis structures, formulas, space-filling models, and 3D manipulatives. As students learn to interpret these multiple representations, they may develop misconceptions that can create problems in further learning of chemistry. Interviews were conducted with 28…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Interviews
Versprille, Ashley N.; Towns, Marcy H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
While much is known about secondary students' perspectives of climate change, rather less is known about undergraduate students' perspectives. The purpose of this study is to investigate general chemistry students' understanding of the chemistry underlying climate change. Findings that emerged from the analysis of the 24 interviews indicate that…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Climate, Environment
Eymur, Gülüzar; Geban, Ömer – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cooperative learning based on conceptual change approach instruction on ninth-grade students' understanding in chemical bonding concepts compared to traditional instruction. Seventy-two ninth-grade students from two intact chemistry classes taught by the same teacher in a public high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Cooperative Learning, Chemistry
Cruz-Ramirez de Arellano, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Organic chemistry is an essential subject for many undergraduate students completing degrees in science, engineering, and pre-professional programs. However, students often struggle with the concepts and skills required to successfully solve organic chemistry exercises. Since alkyl halides are traditionally the first functional group that is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, College Science, Scientific Concepts
Sreenivasulu, Bellam; Subramaniam, R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
This study explored undergraduate students' understanding of the chemistry topic of thermodynamics using a 4-tier diagnostic instrument, comprising 30 questions, and follow-up interviews. An additional objective of the study was to assess the utility of the 4-tier instrument for use in studies on alternative conceptions (ACs) as there has been no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Thermodynamics
Tumay, Halil – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
The main purpose of this study was to identify prospective chemistry teachers' mental models of vapor pressure. The study involved 85 students in the Chemistry Teacher Training Department of a state university in Turkey. Participants' mental models of vapor pressure were explored using a concept test that involved qualitative comparison tasks.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mental Computation