Many of the instruments developed for research use by the chemistry education community
are relatively new. Because psychometric evidence dictates the validity of interpretations …

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The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

This paper describes the process for creating and validating an assessment test that
measures the effectiveness of instruction by probing how well that instruction causes …

Student-centered strategies are being incorporated into undergraduate classrooms in
response to a call for reform. We tested whether teaching in an extensively student-centered …

Meaningful learning requires the integration of cognitive and affective learning with the
psychomotor, ie, hands-on learning. The undergraduate chemistry laboratory is an ideal …

The 100th anniversary of the first article (published in 1921) examining student success and
the high school to university transition in chemistry provides an excellent opportunity to …

Research on learning in the undergraduate chemistry laboratory necessitates an
understanding of students' perspectives of learning. Novak's Theory of Meaningful Learning …

This work presents the evaluation and refinement of a chemistry attitude measure, Attitude
toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory (ASCI), for college students. The original 20-item …

Classroom flipping is the practice of moving new content instruction out of class time, usually
packaging it as online videos and reading assignments for students to cover on their own …