Science education and chemistry education articles have proliferated in the last two decades.
For researchers new to the field, it can be hard to get an overview about a research area, …

Many studies in the chemical education literature report students' alternative conceptions in
chemistry and the difficulty they present for future learning. In this paper, we review existing …

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted teaching and learning worldwide during the Spring 2020
semester. Students and teachers had to shift to online teaching and learning in short order. …

A significant body of the literature in science education examines students' conceptions of
the dissolution of ionic solids in water, often showing that students lack proper understanding …

That different levels of representation are important for complete understanding of chemistry
is an accepted fact in the chemistry education community. This study sought to uncover …

We report the findings of a large-scale (n=1,337) qualitative descriptive analysis of US high
schools students’ particulate representations of a chemical reaction, specifically, the …

The goals of this study were (1) determine the prevalence of various features of representations
in five general chemistry textbooks used in the United States, and (2) use cognitive load …

This study sought to uncover memorized algorithms and procedures that students relied on
in responding to questions based on the particulate nature of matter (PNM). We describe …

Cooperative learning and inquiry-based pedagogies often present a new paradigm for science
teachers in which their traditional role as expert content givers shifts to one of facilitation …

Background Cooperative and inquiry-based pedagogies provide a context for classroom
discourse in which students develop joint understanding of subject matter knowledge. Using …