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 …

Critical thinking is one of the most important skills deemed necessary for college graduates
to become effective contributors in the global workforce. The first part of this article provides …

Education goals have evolved to emphasize student acquisition of the knowledge and
attributes necessary to successfully contribute to the workforce and global economy of the …

Application of new automated scoring technologies, such as natural language processing
and machine learning, makes it possible to provide automated feedback on students' short …

Science Learning and Instruction describes advances in understanding the nature of
science learning and their implications for the design of science instruction. The authors …

Acid–base chemistry is central to a wide range of reactions. If students are able to
understand how and why acid–base reactions occur, it should provide a basis for reasoning …

Constructed response items can both measure the coherence of student ideas and serve as
reflective experiences to strengthen instruction. We report on new automated scoring …

Services are fast overtaking manufacturing to form a dominant proportion of the world
economy. Service innovation is increasingly seen as a vector of sustainable growth and …

We use a construct‐based assessment approach to measure learning progression of energy
concepts across physical, life, and earth science contexts in middle school grades. We …

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 …