CHED 91 |
| The concept of energy occurs consistently throughout the chemistry curriculum, and it has been shown that many students have persistent misconceptions that are resistant to instruction. In order to address these misconceptions it is important to be able to identify and understand the nature of how and why students develop these ideas. One approach is the development of an energy concept inventory that can be administered to students at various times as they move through the curriculum. Our ultimate goal is to use the results of this inventory to allow us to address specific misconceptions. In order to identify student ideas about energy we used Ed's Tools, a web-based program that allows administration of open ended questions to students and facilitates efficient collection and coding of responses. This paper will present preliminary results from the data gathering phase of the development of a Chemistry Energy Concept Inventory (CECI). |
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General Posters
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Poster
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Division of Chemical Education |