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Lieu, Rebekah M.; Gutierrez, Andrew; Shaffer, Justin F. – HAPS Educator, 2018
Learning human anatomy may be a difficult task for students for a variety of reasons including the quantity of material in the course or discipline-specific factors such as understanding anatomical terminology or learning complex physiological processes. Additionally, students may find certain organ systems more challenging than others. While…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Anatomy, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Hanson, Ruby; Seheri-Jele, Naledi – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2018
The research assessed secondary school students' conceptions of acid-base strengths by using the conceptual change instruction accompanied with concept maps and analogies. These teaching strategies were employed to help them make unfamiliar events familiar. Within a quasi-experimental design, the sample of the study consisted of 73 secondary…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Concept Teaching, Misconceptions
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Olsen, Robert J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
I describe how data pooling and data visualization can be employed in the first-semester general chemistry laboratory to introduce core statistical concepts such as central tendency and dispersion of a data set. The pooled data are plotted as a 1-D scatterplot, a purpose-designed number line through which statistical features of the data are…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Visualization, Chemistry, Laboratories