Solving problems in organic chemistry often requires the consideration of reaction
mechanisms. As such, much research has been devoted to the examination of how students …

Organic chemistry reaction mechanisms are central to the discipline of organic chemistry but
challenging for students to learn and for instructors to teach. Due to the unique challenges …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

Acid–base chemistry is central to a wide range of reactions. If students are able to
understand how and why acid–base reactions occur, it should provide a basis for reasoning …

Organic chemistry education is one of the youngest research areas among all chemistry
related research efforts, and its published scholarly work has become vibrant and diverse …

3 KS Taber, Modelling Learners and Learning in Science Education: Develo**
Representations of Concepts, Conceptual Structure and Conceptual Change to Inform …

The study presented here is a follow-up to a previous report in which we investigated how
general-chemistry students in a transformed curriculum reason about simple acid–base …

The central goal of this study was to create a new diagnostic tool to identify organic
chemistry students' alternative conceptions related to acid strength. Twenty years of …

Teaching organic chemistry requires supporting learning strategies that meaningfully
engage students with the challenging concepts and advanced problem-solving skills …

General chemistry is the first undergraduate course in which students further develop their
understanding of fundamental chemical concepts. Many of these fundamental topics …