From Symbols to Chemistry: Mapping Students’ Ability to Work with Chemical Formulas and Their Understanding of Underlying Chemistry Concepts

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Symbols to Chemistry: Mapping Students’ Ability to Work with Chemical Formulas and Their Understanding of Underlying Chemistry Concepts

Original language description

This study focused on connections between students&apos; ability to work with chemical equations and knowledge of relevant underlying concepts. Through a series of tests and tasks, it was tested how knowledge and skills in one area translate into others. The results showed that even freshman university chemistry students did not achieve the expected results and had significant gaps in their understanding of fundamental chemical concepts. The tests including questions about students&apos; knowledge of concerned concepts have not proven to be sufficient to differentiate student achievement reliably. The results also showed that the sub-microscopic level of the phenomena addressed is problematic for students, who tend to cling to the symbolic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Project-based and other student-activation strategies and issues in science education XX.

ISBN

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ISSN

2695-0626

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

213-221

Publisher name

Univerzita Karlova, Pedagogická fakulta

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Praha

Event date

Nov 3, 2022

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

001328097000022