Chemistry education research—From personal empiricism to evidence, theory, and informed practice

MM Cooper, RL Stowe - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
This Review of Chemistry Education Research (CER) provides an overview of the
development of research in chemistry education from the early days, when ideas about how …

A review of research on process oriented guided inquiry learning: Implications for research and practice

JMG Rodriguez, KH Hunter, LJ Scharlott… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
As a pedagogical approach, process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) allows
students to socially construct knowledge through iterative cycles that include three steps …

Escape the lab: An interactive escape-room game as a laboratory experiment

MJ Vergne, JD Simmons… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
An escape-room-game activity was introduced to foster team building and collaborative
learning in a laboratory-experiment setting. The students were placed in a laboratory with …

Getting past the rules and to the WHY: Causal mechanistic arguments when judging the plausibility of organic reaction mechanisms

NE Bodé, JM Deng, AB Flynn - Journal of Chemical Education, 2019 - ACS Publications
Citizens in all roles need to be able to construct causal explanations of scientific phenomena
and engage in coherent argumentation, supported by evidence and sound reasoning …

A review of research on the teaching and learning of thermodynamics at the university level

K Bain, A Moon, MR Mack, MH Towns - Chemistry Education Research …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We review previous research on the teaching and learning of thermodynamics in upper-
level, undergraduate settings. As chemistry education researchers we use physical …

Translating across macroscopic, submicroscopic, and symbolic levels: the role of instructor facilitation in an inquiry-oriented physical chemistry class

N Becker, C Stanford, M Towns, R Cole - … Education Research and …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In physical chemistry classrooms, mathematical and graphical representations are critical
tools for reasoning about chemical phenomena. However, there is abundant evidence that …

Argumentation and participation patterns in general chemistry peer‐led sessions

U Kulatunga, RS Moog, JE Lewis - Journal of Research in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article focuses on the use of Toulmin's argumentation scheme to investigate the
characteristics of student group argumentation in Peer‐Led Guided Inquiry sessions for a …

Investigating students' argumentation when judging the plausibility of alternative reaction pathways in organic chemistry

L Lieber, N Graulich - Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Building scientific arguments is a central ability for all scientists regardless of their specific
domain. In organic chemistry, building arguments is a necessary skill to estimate reaction …

Using cooperative learning to teach chemistry: A meta-analytic review

ARM Warfa - Journal of chemical education, 2016 - ACS Publications
A meta-analysis of recent quantitative studies that examine the effects of cooperative
learning (CL) on achievement outcomes in chemistry is presented. Findings from 25 …

The nature of students' chemical reasoning employed in scientific argumentation in physical chemistry

A Moon, C Stanford, R Cole, M Towns - Chemistry Education Research …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent science education reform efforts have emphasized scientific practices in addition to
scientific knowledge. Less work has been done at the tertiary level to consider students' …