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Atkinson, Molly B.; Popova, Maia; Croisant, Michael; Reed, Daniel J.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The Reaction Coordinate Diagram Inventory (RCDI) has been developed to measure student thinking and confidence with reaction coordinate diagrams (RCDs) and their correspondence to reaction mechanisms. The RCDI was designed using a sequential mixed-methods protocol, such that the questions and distractors in the instrument were generated based on…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Self Esteem, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Croisant, Michael; Bretz, Stacey Lowery; Konkolewicz, Dominik – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
The ACS Guidelines for bachelor's degrees in chemistry call for the curriculum to include polymer chemistry principles and the synthesis of different classes of macromolecules. Organic chemistry can provide an important introduction to polymer chemistry principles, and photochemically induced radical polymerization is one method for generating…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Discovery Learning