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Irina Braun; Scott E. Lewis; Nicole Graulich – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
The ability to reason with representations is pivotal for successful learning in Organic Chemistry and is closely linked to representational competence. Given the visual nature of this discipline, this comprises competency in extracting and processing relevant visual information. With regard to the resonance concept, proficiency in identifying…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Pattern Recognition
Isaiah Nelsen; Ayesha Farheen; Scott E. Lewis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Representations in chemistry are the tools by which students, instructors, and chemists reason with chemical concepts that are abstract. Although representations are regularly used within the chemistry classroom, there is more to uncover regarding the ways students interact with representations when given chemistry tasks. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Henry Matovu; Mihye Won; Roy Tasker; Mauro Mocerino; David Franklin Treagust; Dewi Ayu Kencana Ungu; Chin-Chung Tsai – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) can help students visualise and explore complex chemical concepts, such as protein enzyme structures and interactions. We designed a set of collaborative iVR-based learning tasks on the interaction between a protein enzyme and its substrate. We investigated how 18 pairs (36 students) in undergraduate chemistry…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Education, Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education
Matovu, Henry; Won, Mihye; Treagust, David Franklin; Mocerino, Mauro; Ungu, Dewi Ayu Kencana; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Tasker, Roy – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Recent studies have reported a growing trend of using student-generated diagrams for assessment in science teaching and research. However, many educators tend to use diagrams to explore students' perceptions of scientists and their work rather than explore conceptual understanding of abstract concepts. In this study, we used diagrams to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Molecular Structure, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Kevin H. Hunter; Lauren A. Groenenboom; Ayesha Farheen; Nicole M. Becker – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
The current study aims to contribute to the literature on how organic chemistry students weigh various factors when predicting products of substitution and elimination reactions. This study focuses specifically on these mechanism types, as they are often the first instances where students must consider the "how" and the "why"…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Student Attitudes
Vojir, Karel; Rusek, Martin – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
According to research findings from all over the world, textbooks play an important role for teachers in the choice of methods, content and educational goals. However, the open textbook market, where the state's influence is limited, results in a significant gap between the state (written) curriculum and actual classroom practice. To understand…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science
Meyer, David; Pietzner, Verena – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Reading is an integral part of chemistry education. The language of chemistry plays a major role when reading chemistry texts and textbooks. Reading textual and non-textual explanations impact students' understanding of chemistry texts and textbooks. In our review we outline the importance of reading texts and textbooks in chemistry education. We…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Chemistry, Textbook Content, Visual Aids
Atkinson, Molly B.; Croisant, Michael; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Reaction coordinate diagrams (RCDs) are an important tool used to visualize the energetics of a chemical reaction. RCDs provide information about the kinetics of the reaction, the mechanism by which the reaction occurs, and the relative thermodynamic stability of the molecules in a reaction. Previous research studies have characterized student…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Thinking Skills, Visual Aids, Chemistry
Farheen, Ayesha; Lewis, Scott E. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Representations are ubiquitous in chemistry. They are part of the chemistry language instructors use to communicate chemistry phenomenon to students. Literature calls in support of learning with multiple representations, but there is a pre-requisite for students to learn from a single representation. In this exploratory study, 1086 students in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Parobek, Alexander P.; Chaffin, Patrick M.; Towns, Marcy H. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Reaction coordinate diagrams (RCDs) are chemical representations widely employed to visualize the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters associated with reactions. Previous research has demonstrated a host of misconceptions students adopt when interpreting the perceived information encoded in RCDs. This qualitative research study explores how…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Chemistry, Inferences, Data Interpretation
Nahlik, Philip; Daubenmire, Patrick L. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
A method is adapted for calculating two measures of entropy for gaze transitions to summarize and statistically compare eye-tracking data. A review of related eye-tracking studies sets the context for this approach. We argue that entropy analysis captures rich data that allows for robust statistical comparisons and can be used for more subtle…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chemistry, Science Education, Undergraduate Students
Natalia Spitha; Yujian Zhang; Samuel Pazicni; Sarah A. Fullington; Carla Morais; Amanda Rae Buchberger; Pamela S. Doolittle – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
The Beer-Lambert law is a fundamental relationship in chemistry that helps connect macroscopic experimental observations (i.e., the amount of light exiting a solution sample) to a symbolic model composed of system-level parameters (e.g., concentration values). Despite the wide use of the Beer-Lambert law in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Principles
Sevgül Çalis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study focuses on examining the mental models of 11th and 12th-grade students attending a science high school in Turkey regarding the concept of the electron cloud. The study involved 72 students and employed the case study method. The precondition for selecting the sample was that the students had covered the unit on modern atomic theory in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Grade 11, Grade 12
Watts, Field M.; Park, Grace Y.; Petterson, Michael N.; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Organic reaction mechanisms are often represented by the electron-pushing formalism and reaction coordinate diagrams. These representations pose a challenge to students because valuable information is encoded within each representation, and students must know how to reason about mechanisms using both. Hence, it is important to understand whether…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Logical Thinking, Writing Assignments
Guspatni, Guspatni – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Student-generated drawings are known to be effective in building and revealing students' conceptions of chemistry. Some chemistry concepts, moreover, include changes and processes that cannot be merely represented by static drawings. Computer-based animations are needed to represent the dynamics. In this study, 25 chemistry student teachers, who…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Freehand Drawing, Animation, Computer Simulation