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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2006  > September  >
Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
The Role of Structure of the Discipline in Improving Student Understanding: The Case of Organic Chemistry
Gail Green and Marissa Rollnick
School of Chemistry and College of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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September 2006
Vol. 83 No. 9
p. 1376
Abstract
This article arose from interesting observations during a larger study where the focus was on the interface between two years of university chemistry. Locating the interface was not as straightforward as anticipated owing to differences in innate characteristics of the knowledge structure of various chemistry disciplines. This necessitated conceptualizing knowledge development as occurring in either a linear or branched fashion in any particular topic. Data used for identifying courses that students found most difficult revealed that scores in organic chemistry (a course which develops linearly) improved dramatically after an intervention by an instructor in 1998. This observation makes it possible to theorize about why an intervention had been so successful in this subject and setting.
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Citation
Green, Gail; Rollnick, Marissa. J. Chem. Educ. 2006 83 1376.
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Keywords
Chemical Education Research; Enrichment / Review Materials; Graduate Education / Research; Misconceptions / Discrepant Events; Organic Chemistry; Student-Centered Learning
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8/7/2006
8/18/2006
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