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Direct linkVan Wieren, Arie; Colen, Philip; Majumdar, Sudipta – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
An understanding of structure-function relationships in proteins is essential for modern biochemical studies. The integration of common freely accessible bioinformatics tools available online with the knowledge of protein-engineering tools provide a fundamental understanding of the application of protein structure-function for biochemical…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Student Projects, Science Laboratories
Sean Gao; Taylor C. Outlaw; Jason G. Liang-Lin; Alina Feng; Reika Shimomura; Jennifer L. Roizen; Charles T. Cox Jr. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aimed to analyze second-semester organic chemistry students' problem-solving strategies, specifically focusing on the resources activated while solving problems on E2, E1, and E1cB elimination reactions. Using the theoretical framework by Elby and Hammer, we defined a resource as a unit of information used in the problem-solving…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Protocol Analysis
Laura B. Armstrong; Lauren M. Irie; Kelly Chou; Mariana Rivas; Michelle C. Douskey; Anne M. Baranger – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
For the past decade, the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley has iteratively redesigned general chemistry laboratory courses to introduce students to green chemistry concepts, while simultaneously using green chemistry as a relevant context to learn chemistry. To investigate the effectiveness of this curriculum we developed approaches to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Conservation (Environment), Knowledge Level
Corsiglia, Giaco; Pollock, Steven; Passante, Gina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Broadly speaking, many physicists value intuition in their work, and many instructors hope their students develop intuition (while possibly being wary of their initial, unrefined intuitions). These considerations are especially relevant in quantum mechanics, a subject many see as counterintuitive because it is removed from classical everyday…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Quantum Mechanics, Student Attitudes, Intuition
Boothe, J. R.; Zotos, E. K.; Shultz, G. V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Acid-base chemistry is a foundational concept for organic chemistry, and the complexities in teaching and learning acid-base chemistry are well documented. This study aimed to investigate post-secondary instructors' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching acid-base chemistry in an organic chemistry context. Two groups of three graduate…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Organic Chemistry
Karthigeyan Subramaniam – Science & Education, 2025
This study examined how five minoritized female pre-service teachers negotiated their border crossing from learning to teach science to science teaching for the first time (microteaching) within the context of an elementary science teaching methods course. Perspectives from the border crossing literature guided this study and helped in addressing…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Preservice Teachers, Females, Preservice Teacher Education
Kirsty Dunnett; Anders Mattias Lundmark – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
'A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline' is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth. We examine this assumption by considering the disciplinary crossing of buoyancy (physics) to isostasy (geoscience). We investigate the teachers' perspective through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics
Larissa Wellhöfer; Arnim Lühken – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
The focus in teaching and research is shifting from a traditional perspective of information literacy (IL) as a specific set of general, mostly text-based skills to a more comprehensive understanding of the complex aspects that constitute IL as an ongoing, context-specific process. However, there is a need for further insight into the social and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Information Literacy, Novices, Science Laboratories
Tobin, R. G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Kinetic energy is usually the entry point for the study of energy in physics and is often perceived as unproblematic. We present evidence, however, that some learners who seem to have accepted the concept, from elementary school students to college physics majors and in-service teachers, nevertheless do not consistently attribute kinetic energy to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Download full textNaparat Nilada; Wisarut Payougkiattikun; Tawan Thongsuk – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
This research aims to investigate the scientific creativity of 9th grade students following the implementation of a project-based learning (PjBL) approach. The study involved a sample of 21 students from a high school in a Roi Et province during the first semester of the academic year 2023. Participants were randomly selected using classrooms as…
Descriptors: Creativity, Student Projects, Active Learning, Student Attitudes
Wheatley, Christopher; Wells, James; Pritchard, David E.; Stewart, John – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) is a popular multiple-choice instrument used to measure a student's conceptual understanding of Newtonian mechanics. Recently, a network analytic technique called module analysis has been used to identify responses to the FCI and other conceptual instruments that are preferentially selected together by students;…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
Quan-Thanh Huynh; Yu-Chuan Yang – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Numerous studies have proven the learning benefits of concept maps in science subjects, particularly for students with low prior knowledge. There is a scarcity of research dedicated to the examination of chemistry courses at the university level, and the findings pertaining to academic performance in that subject exhibit a lack of consistency.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Concept Mapping, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Werth, Alexandra; Oliver, Kristin; West, Colin G.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] Over the last decade, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been recognized as a way to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education by engaging students in authentic research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Teamwork, Science Instruction
Beheshtian, Cheyenne; Garcia, Vanessa Elena; Zhu-Hui Ng, Tiffany; Alkhatib, Sarah; Quang, Erica; Cho, Kira Jinju; Nguyen, Timothy Duy; Le, Dustin Nguyen; Kadandale, Pavan – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
A large body of literature has established the benefits of undergraduate research experiences via the traditional apprenticeship model. More recently, several studies have shown that many of these benefits can be recapitulated in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) that are more scalable and easier for students to participate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Research Training, Laboratory Experiments
Kempegowda, Swetha Nagarahalli; Ramachandra, Shobha Chikkavaddaragudi; Arun, Brunda; Devaraju, Abhijith; Shivashankar, Kusuma Kasapura; Raghunathachar, Sahana Kabbathy; Bettadapura, Anjalidevi Shankarrao; Puttalingaiah, Sujatha; Devegowda, Devananda; Vishwanath, Prashant; Nataraj, Suma Maduvanahalli; Prashant, Akila – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Online assessments are needed during the prevailing pandemic situation to continue educational activities while ensuring safety. After conducting the online practical assessment (OPrA) in Biochemistry, we analyzed the students' responses. The blueprint of the OPrA was prepared by the faculty, referring to the various levels and domains of Bloom's…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Science Tests, Feedback (Response)
