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Wei, Jianye; Mocerino, Mauro; Treagust, David F.; Lucey, Anthony D.; Zadnik, Marjan G.; Lindsay, Euan D.; Carter, Damien J. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Laboratories play a crucial role in the undergraduate science curriculum and the effectiveness of learning in laboratories is influenced by learners' interactions with other students, the instructors, and the equipment used. In this study, a pre-lab survey was used to collect information about students' expectations of interactions in chemistry…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Vishnumolakala, Venkat Rao; Southam, Daniel C.; Treagust, David F.; Mocerino, Mauro; Qureshi, Sheila – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
This one-semester, mixed methods study underpinning social cognition and theory of planned behaviour investigated the attitudes, self-efficacy, and experiences of 559 first year undergraduate chemistry students from two cohorts in modified process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) classes. Versions of attitude toward the study of chemistry…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, College Science, Chemistry
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Vishnumolakala, Venkat Rao; Southam, Daniel C.; Treagust, David F.; Mocerino, Mauro – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Pedagogical practitioners who emphasise active learning in undergraduate chemistry courses widely use the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) instrument to measure students' perceptions of their gains in knowledge and skills in chemistry. Although numerous studies have reported SALG results in support of successful pedagogical…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, College Science, Student Attitudes