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Stieff, Mike; Lira, Matthew E.; Scopelitis, Stephanie A. – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
The present article describes two studies that examine the impact of teaching students to use gesture to support spatial thinking in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) discipline of chemistry. In Study 1 we compared the effectiveness of instruction that involved either watching gesture, reproducing gesture, or reading…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, STEM Education, Research Universities
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Mohamed-Salah, Boukhechem; Alain, Dumon – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
This study aims to assess whether the handling of concrete ball-and-stick molecular models promotes translation between diagrammatic representations and a concrete model (or vice versa) and the coordination of the different types of structural representations of a given molecular structure. Forty-one Algerian undergraduate students were requested…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Molecular Structure, Models