First published in 2012. Why does understanding really matter? Why do some learners fail to
understand? At a time when league tables can be everything, examination grades matter …

A nonequivalent, control group design was used to investigate student achievement in
secondary chemistry. This study investigated the effect of process‐oriented guided inquiry …

In many chemical processes, porous medium is usually used as a catalyst and mixing of
reactants that may generate heat in thermal chemical processes. In this study, a cavity with …

New Zealand science educators in arguing for improving school science education for all
students with different interests and career aspirations (Gluckman, 2011; Tytler, 2007) …

The central goal of this study was to examine the extent to which a teaching approach
focused on the interaction between macroscopic, submicroscopic, and symbolic levels of …

The Chemical Concepts Inventory (CCI) is a multiple-choice instrument designed to assess
the alternate conceptions of students in high school or first-semester college chemistry. The …

In this study, we investigated how students used a drawing tool to visualize their ideas of
chemical reaction processes. We interviewed 30 students using thinking-aloud and …

The efficacy of an intervention instructional program was evaluated to facilitate
understanding of particle theory concepts among students (N= 190) using a diagnostic …

This study describes the development of an activity worksheet for remediating Year 9
students'(aged 13 to 14 years old) misconceptions of metallic bonding. The worksheet was …

In this study, how prospective chemistry teachers (PCTs) perceive precipitation and
conceptualize precipitation reactions at the symbolic level was explored. Further, it was of …