It is widely acknowledged both that students experience learning difficulties when taught
about the submicroscopic structural models that are central to the theoretical basis of …

Context-based learning approaches have been implemented in school science over the last
40 years as a way to enhance students' interest in, as well as learning outcomes from …

Chemistry students and teachers often explain the chemical reactivity of atoms, molecules,
and chemical substances in terms of purposes or needs (eg, atoms want or need to gain …

Background: Context-based learning approaches are used to enhance students' interest in,
and knowledge about, science. According to different empirical studies, students' interest is …

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 …

The central goal of this qualitative research study was to uncover major implicit assumptions
that students with different levels of training in the discipline apply when thinking and making …

Almost 700 Swedish and South African students from the upper secondary school and first-
term chemistry university level responded to our survey on concepts of chemical bonding …

How anthropomorphic reasoning functions in scientific thinking has been a controversial
topic. There is evidence it is problematic as well as evidence it can play productive roles, for …

In a preceding publication (Tsaparlis, G., Pappa, ET, & Byers, B.(2018). Teaching and
learning chemical bonding: Research-based evidence for misconceptions and conceptual …

This work investigates the formation of particular student profiles based on of their ideas
relating to basic characteristics of the atom. Participants were secondary students of 8th …