We review the literature, from 2006 to 2020, focused on the teaching and learning of
chemical bonding. The studies included in our review (48 studies set in 19 different …

In 2011, we published a description of 15 core concepts of physiology, and in 2017 we
described how core concepts could be used to teach physiology. On the basis of …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has created new challenges for instructors who seek high‐impact
educational practices that can be facilitated online without creating excessive burdens with …

Threshold concepts have been referred to as “jewels in the curriculum”: concepts that are
key to competency in a discipline but not taught explicitly. In biology, researchers have …

Threshold concepts are conceived as cognitive portals to new and previously inaccessible
ways of thinking in a domain. They are transformative, integrative, irreversible, and …

Concept inventories, constructed based on an analysis of students' thinking and their
explanations of scientific situations, serve as diagnostics for identifying misconceptions and …

In recent years, there has been a strong push to transform STEM education at K‐12 and
collegiate levels to help students learn to think like scientists. One aspect of this …

Abstract Issue Threshold Concepts are increasingly used and researched within health
professions education. First proposed by Meyer and Land in 2003, they can be defined as …

The Organic and Biochemistry Readiness Instrument (OBRI) is a concept inventory to
assess essential concepts covered in general chemistry with an emphasis on the topics …

Fundamental quantum chemistry concepts—quantization of energy, electronic structure, and
light–matter interaction—are essential for understanding chemistry and spectroscopy, an …