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Peer reviewedKeiser, Jeffrey E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1988
Proposes that the psychological problem of students expecting a particular result in an organic chemistry laboratory and, therefore, working in an unthinking manner be attacked by assigning experiments that give students unexpected results. Gives four examples of such experiments with strategies for teaching them. (CW)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science, Creative Thinking
