Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Conceptualization of Models in General Chemistry

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00813
• Publication Date: 2019-01-24T07:38:18Z
• Authors: Katherine Lazenby; Charlie A. Rupp; Alexandra Brandriet; Kathryn Mauger-So...; Nicole M. Becker
• Keywords: Chemistry Education; General chemistry; Concept learning

Understanding the nature and purpose of models, including mathematical is critical to enabling undergraduate chemistry students use models predict explain phenomena. However, often do not have systematic conceptions about different kinds models. To gain a sense how understand in general curriculum, we developed survey examine students' reasoning generally some specific contexts within curriculum. The findings suggest that productive ideas what representations are scientific characteristics those models; however, may recognize these which or graphical nature.