02493nam a22002777a 4500 20231020112941.0 231020b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0021-9584 RIEBPL Library 540.7 Ryan D. Sweeder, Deborah G. Herrington, and Olivia M. Crandell Chemistry Education Research at a Crossroads: Where Do We Need to Go Now? (Journal Article) USA :American Chemical Society ,May 2023 1710-1715p. American Chemical Society, Volume 100, Issue 5 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract- At the Biennial Conference of Chemical Education in August 2022, a symposium was held entitled Chemistry Education Research at a Crossroads: Where Do We Need to Go Now? The impetus for this symposium was to reflect on how our field has changed and grown substantially in the last 60 years and to challenge the chemistry education research (CER) community to think about how we could most productively continue to progress. As Cooper and Stowe highlight in their 2018 review of the development of research in chemistry education, the field has moved from personal empiricism, where ideas about teaching and learning of chemistry were guided by practitioner wisdom, to a field grounded in theories of learning that seeks evidence to improve teaching and learning. More recently, the COVID pandemic has forced a global rethinking of chemistry education, providing opportunities for systemic change in how CER is conducted, disseminated, and put into practice rather than returning to prepandemic status quo. To catalyze discussion about how to best capitalize on these opportunities, symposium speakers and attendees shared many ideas, challenges, and questions regarding the role that the CER community can or should play moving forward. This commentary aims to both document the ideas generated in the symposium by the presenters and the participants for the broader community and lay out one potential future direction and set of goals for CER as a means to inspire thoughtful conversation. Graduate Education/Research High School/Introductory Chemistry Chemistry Education Curriculum Assessment Conferences Professional Development https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00091 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2023-10-20 0 540.7 2023-10-20 00:00:00 2023-10-20 PER 44530 44529