Students' strategies, struggles, and successes with mechanism problem solving in organic chemistry: a scoping review of the research literature

AJ Dood, FM Watts - Journal of Chemical Education, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solving problems in organic chemistry often requires the consideration of reaction
mechanisms. As such, much research has been devoted to the examination of how students …

How much can spatial training improve STEM achievement?

M Stieff, D Uttal - Educational Psychology Review, 2015 - Springer
Spatial training has been indicated as a possible solution for improving Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) achievement and degree attainment …

[图书][B] Discipline-based education research: Understanding and improving learning in undergraduate science and engineering

National Research Council - 2012 - nap.nationalacademies.org
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[图书][B] Discipline-based education research: Understanding and improving learning in undergraduate science and engineering

HA Schweingruber, NR Nielsen, SR Singer - 2012 - books.google.com
The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

How do gestures influence thinking and speaking? The gesture-for-conceptualization hypothesis.

S Kita, MW Alibali, M Chu - Psychological review, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …

The tip of the iceberg in organic chemistry classes: how do students deal with the invisible?

N Graulich - Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic chemistry education is one of the youngest research areas among all chemistry
related research efforts, and its published scholarly work has become vibrant and diverse …

Student understanding of intermolecular forces: A multimodal study

MM Cooper, LC Williams… - Journal of Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The ability to use representations of molecular structure to predict the macroscopic
properties of a substance is central to the development of a robust understanding of …

Representational translation with concrete models in organic chemistry

AT Stull, M Hegarty, B Dixon, M Stieff - Cognition and Instruction, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In representation-rich domains such as organic chemistry, students must be facile and
accurate when translating between different 2D representations, such as diagrams. We …

Teaching students to think spatially through embodied actions: Design principles for learning environments in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

D DeSutter, M Stieff - Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2017 - Springer
Spatial thinking is a vital component of the science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics curriculum. However, to date, broad development of learning environments that …

Sketching the invisible to predict the visible: From drawing to modeling in chemistry

MM Cooper, M Stieff, D DeSutter - Topics in cognitive science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sketching as a scientific practice goes beyond the simple act of inscribing diagrams onto
paper. Scientists produce a wide range of representations through sketching, as it is tightly …