Title: ‘‘I guess it was more than just my general knowledge of chemistry’’: exploring students’ confidence judgments in two-tiered assessments Authors:
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Title: ‘‘I guess it was more than just my general knowledge of chemistry’’: exploring students’ confidence judgments in two-tiered assessments Authors:
Continue readingStudents in an introductory chemistry lab were tasked with finding the best way to recover lithium from brine and interviewed about their experiences.
Continue readingStudents often underestimate or overestimate their preparedness for General Chemistry at the beginning of the semester. Tertiary professors view students as less prepared than high school teachers.
Continue readingStudents mindsets, as well as those they think are held by their peers or professors, have an impact on their success in engineering courses.
Continue readingInterventions encouraging students to reason through and use supporting evidence to predict boiling point trends improves student understanding
Continue readingA metacognitive intervention teaching General Chemistry students effective study skills led to students identify effective practices and may have improved performance in the course.
Continue readingPOGIL teaching strategies, where students work in groups to construct there own understanding of material from open ended questions, was shown to improve student performance in introductory chemistry courses.
Continue readingInterestingly, their belief that they are good at science and can do science was a distant third.
Continue readingEven though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.
Continue readingReminding students of energy in physics can help them answer energy questions in chemistry.
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