CHED 76 |
| A major educational research, professional development, and instructional materials and technology development center in nanoscience was established in the United States three years ago. The "big ideas" in nanoscience were identified in a series of center-wide efforts in 2006 involving nanoscience experts, science educators, and teachers. These "big ideas" are highly interdisciplinary, which most scientists and science educators can agree that they are important ideas not only for nanoscience specifically but for science in general. Taking into account that students develop science concepts from concrete to abstract ones over time in the Piagetian sense, the concept inventory – a list of key concepts – in nanoscience can be used to guide research into students' progress in acquiring abstract science (chemistry) and nanoscience concepts. In other words, a series of "concept-inventory-based tests" can be constructed for students at various grade levels based on an identical concept inventory, in theory. |
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General Posters
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Poster
Division of Chemical Education |