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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Chemistry education"”.
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Polymer chemistry education to increase student awareness of plastic pervasiveness and environmental impact
… laboratory sequence was written to teach general chemistry concepts in a course for pre-service elementary teachers. Students experienced the difficulties related to polymer pollution clean-up and made bio-based materials to see possible alternatives. In order to determine whether this laboratory …
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Classroom implementation of the practices learned in the Master of Chemistry Education Program by the School District of Philadelphia's High School Chemistry teachers
… their classrooms. Six graduates of the Master of Chemistry Education Program who were teaching a chemistry course in a high school in the School District of Philadelphia at the time of the study (2006-8), were the case. The teachers completed a concerns questionnaire with closed and open-ended …
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Computersimulationen: Bewegte Bilder oder genuine Instrumente der Erkenntnisgewinnung? Charakterisierung und Förderung der Vorstellungen von Lehramtsstudierenden der Chemie zum epistemologischen Status und zur Rolle computerbasierter Simulationen in den Naturwissenschaften
… simulations play a significant role in chemistry education, with students learning both with and about simulations. The latter provides learners with an access from the philosophy of science regarding simulations as instruments for knowledge acquisition, which warrants special attention …
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Atomic emission misconceptions as investigated through student interviews and measured by the Flame Test Concept Inventory
One challenge of chemistry education arises from the limited experiences that students have with some abstract concepts first introduced during chemistry classes. The abstract concept of atomic emission is formally introduced during secondary education in the U.S. science curriculum. The topic is …
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Extending Students' Practice of Metacognitive Regulation Strategies in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory and Investigation of Pb2+ Binding to Calmodulin with Circular Dichroism and Molecular Dynamics Modeling
… dissertation was composed of two projects in chemistry education and benchwork/computational biochemistry. The chemistry education research explored students' practice of metacognitive strategies while solving open-ended laboratory problems when engaged in an instructional environment, the …
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Study of the effectiveness of animations used in high school chemistry classes
<p>This chemistry education research study explores the role of computer animations in a secondary chemistry classroom setting. This study examines the effects of animation among secondary science students regarding chemical concepts and focuses on the nature of matter, atomic structure, and …
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The Affordances of Gesture for Learning and Communicating About Spatial and Nonspatial Aspects of Gases
… gestures for communicating and learning about chemistry topics, specifically comparing the utility of gestures for spatial and nonspatial aspects of gases in General Chemistry. The theoretical framework of this work is embodied cognition, and through this lens, gesture serves as both an input …
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factors Affecting Academic Performance of In-service Students in science Education: a case of the University of zambia
… performance of mature-age students in Science Education at University of Zambia. It was guided by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory provided relationship between achievement motivation and academic performance. A descriptive research design was used. Both Qualitative and Quantitative …
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factors Affecting Academic Performance of In-service Students in science Education: a case of the University of zambia
… performance of mature-age students in Science Education at University of Zambia. It was guided by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory provided relationship between achievement motivation and academic performance. A descriptive research design was used. Both Qualitative and Quantitative …
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Evidence of Student Learning of Spectrophotometry and Intermolecular Forces in the Chemistry Laboratory
… methods and foundational concepts in the general chemistry laboratory with attention to meaningful learning and mechanistic reasoning. Using these frameworks three laboratory activities explored student perceptions and explanatory reasoning in the context of laboratory learning. The first strand …
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Use of Multiple Representations to Explore Students’ Understandings of Covalent and Ionic Bonding as Measured by the Bonding Representations Inventory
… introduced in both middle school and secondary education (grades 6-12) and reintroduced in the undergraduate general chemistry curriculum. Teachers use multiple representations to communicate the concepts of bonding, including Lewis Structures, formulas, spacefilling models, and 3D …
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The development of integrated chemistry-based experiments implications for the teaching of environmental chemistry in the Vietnamese context
A survey of environmental chemistry laboratory experiments in the Journal of Chemical Education (ACS) and Education in Chemistry (RCS) has been carried out from 1969 to the present. The experiments have been categorized as being related to the areas of either air, water or soil. Over the same …
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Enhancing teachers' knowledge for using multiple representations in teaching chemistry in Nigerian senior secondary schools
The quality of the teaching and learning of chemistry in Nigeria is of great concern to parents, teachers, and students and has been tied to various factors such as a lack of teaching resources, learning materials and well qualified teachers, large class sizes and poor funding. This resulted in …
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Measuring content and pedagogical content knowledge of general chemistry teaching assistants
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Measuring content and pedagogical content knowledge of general chemistry teaching assistants
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Harnessing curiosity, interest, and empathy in the college chemistry classroom
… at risk of disengaging with general and organic chemistry courses, performing poorly and not continuing in STEM. Utility value (UV) interventions, though, have increased the achievement and retention of low-performing students in psychology and introductory biology courses. In this study, a …
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Students' Mental Models of Chemical Reactions
… model-based teaching and learning in science education shows promise in overcoming student misconceptions, but research about modelling for chemical reactions is sparse. In an attempt to redress this schism, this study took the form of an inquiry into a cross-age study of 67 students drawn …
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Zimbabwean teachers’ espoused and enacted knowledge for teaching ordinary-level integrated science
… on exploring Teacher Knowledge in General Education and Science Education fields (Elbaz, 1983, Shulman, 1987, Grossman, 1990; Carlsen, 1999; Lederman, 2006; Chapman, 2013; Goodwin & Kosnik, 2013). Central in this discourse on Teacher Knowledge is understanding teachers espoused and enacted …
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First Steps of Putting Research into Practice: Utilizing Concept Inventories to Identify Biochemistry Misconceptions and the Development of a Guided Inquiry Activity to Correct the Identified Misconceptions
… However, there is no collection of biology, chemistry and biochemistry concept inventories and there has been no analysis of the quality of these inventories. One goal of the research was to collect these inventories and do the much needed analysis. Fifty-two concept inventories were …
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ZAMBIAN PRE-SERVICE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' CHEMICAL REASONING AND ABILITY
… science teachers at Mufulira College of Education in Zambia. There were 82 males and 83 females. Data were collected using a Chemical Concept Reasoning Test (CCRT). Pre-service science teachers' chemical reasoning was established through qualitative analysis of their responses to test …
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