MAPS Education Research & Innovation Seminar: Ginger Schultz (University of Michigan)

MAPS Education Research & Innovation Seminar: Ginger Schultz (University of Michigan)
Chemistry is often presented to students as a disconnected set of ideas. This talk highlights some of Ginger's group's recent contributions to understanding how reasoning develops when applied by learners in NMR spectroscopy problem solving, when writing about reaction mechanisms, and when drawing on intellectual resources from a local community to conduct a research project. They use various methods, including eye-tracking, semi-structured and think-aloud interviews, and textual analysis of student writing to investigate how students reason about molecular structure and behaviour. They also investigate how the intellectual resources that students bring with them to the classroom influence how their thinking develops. Their goal is to uncover reasoning patterns used by students so that they and others can design learning environments that cultivate student reasoning about chemistry while also helping them to relate material learned in class to their lived experiences.
Stephen Potts
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2/11/2022
01:06:42
pedagogy, Education, Teaching
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