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Ozcan Gulacar; Brandon Vernoy; Emily Tran; Arista Wu; Emily Zhang Huie; Efrain Vasquez Santos; Anish Wadhwa; Risa Sathe; Alexandra Milkey – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
This study aimed to examine the impact of years of experience and field of expertise on the development of chemistry knowledge structures from STEM experts comprising 103 professors, 10 postdocs, and 146 doctoral students. Of these participants, 127 were specialized in chemistry and the rest were from various science and engineering disciplines.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Knowledge Level, Expertise, College Faculty
Cook, Leah J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The aim of this research is to determine what differences may exist in students' structural knowledge while using a variety of concept mapping assessments. A concept map can be used as an assessment which connects concepts in a knowledge domain. A single assessment may not be powerful enough to establish how students' new knowledge relates to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Science Instruction, Novices, Expertise
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Gupta, Ayush; Hammer, David; Redish, Edward F. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
In a series of well-known papers, Chi and Slotta (M. T. H. Chi, 1992, 2005; M. T. H. Chi & J. D. Slotta, 1993; M. T. H. Chi, J. D. Slotta, & N. de Leeuw, 1994; J. Slotta & M. T. H. Chi, 2006; J. D. Slotta, M. T. H. Chi, & E. Joram, 1995) have contended that a reason for students' difficulties in learning physics is that students…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Models, Expertise