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022 _a0021-9584
100 _aHermanns, Jolanda
245 _aStudents’ Learning and Application of Basic Concepts in the Course “Organic Chemistry I for Preservice Chemistry Teachers”
_b(Journal Article)
260 _aWashington DC
_b:American Chemical Society
_c,2023
300 _a4249–4260p.
440 _aJournal of Chemical Education
_vVolume 100, 2023 - Issue 11, November 2023
505 _a***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________***
520 _aAbstract: In their second year at the university, preservice chemistry teachers are confronted with organic chemistry. Because it is known that students often struggle with the subject, a new course design was developed, used, and evaluated for this study. To ensure meaningful learning, the students had many opportunities to actively participate in the course (because of the COVID pandemic via Zoom). Many partner and group work phases were used for solving and discussing tasks in organic chemistry. The application of basic and advanced skills was practiced explicitly as well as implicitly. The interaction among the students during the course, the use of basic concepts in the course design, and the learning outcomes of the written exam were analyzed in detail. Students’ interaction was best in the partner group phases. Here, all of the students participated equally. All concepts, such as the concepts of nucleophilicity and electrophilicity, for example, were employed during the course explicitly and implicitly. However, the analysis of the written exam showed that the students were more successful if they applied basic skills. The more complex the task, the less the application of basic skills could be observed. Whether the students applied those skills but did not write them down remains unclear, although the results hint that they did not. In the future, the application of basic and advanced skills should be made more transparent.
650 _aSecond-Year Undergraduate | Organic Chemistry | Curriculum| Student-Centered Learning
700 _aBresler, Alexandra | Kunold, Helen
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00108
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