I am a chemical education researcher who has investigated the problems students have learning chemistry. I have taught chemistry to the chemistry phobic students (nursing and education majors) for 29 years at the The Catholic University of America and general chemistry for the two years I taught at the US Naval Academy.
Students’ concept-building approaches (abstraction vs. exemplar), identified a priori with a cogn... more Students’ concept-building approaches (abstraction vs. exemplar), identified a priori with a cognitive-psychology laboratory task, have been extended to learning complex topics in general chemistry. Here, the effect concept-building approaches have on the problem-solving behaviors of average-achieving students was probed via think-aloud interviews.
Students’ concept-building approaches (abstraction vs. exemplar), identified a priori with a cogn... more Students’ concept-building approaches (abstraction vs. exemplar), identified a priori with a cognitive-psychology laboratory task, have been extended to learning complex topics in general chemistry. Here, the effect concept-building approaches have on the problem-solving behaviors of average-achieving students was probed via think-aloud interviews.
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