Visualization of chemical concepts can be challenging for many students. This is arguably a
critical skill for beginning students of biochemistry to develop, since new information is often …

Decades of research have demonstrated the correlation of spatial abilities to chemistry
achievement and career selection. Nonetheless, reviews have highlighted the need and …

Representational competence is one's ability to use disciplinary representations for learning,
communicating, and problem-solving. These skills are at the heart of engagement in …

Understanding metabolism and metabolic pathways constitutes one of the central aims for
students of biological sciences. Learning metabolic pathways should be focused on the …

Understanding the relationship between molecular structure and function represents an
important goal of undergraduate life sciences. Although evidence suggests that handling …

Representational competence (RC) is a set of skills to reflectively use a variety of
representations to draw inferences, make predictions, and support claims. Despite the …

Organic chemistry students are routinely bombarded with an array of specialized
representations (eg, electron-pushing mechanisms, Newman projections, chair …

Metabolic pathways are one of the most challenging topics in biochemistry to conceptualize
because it requires that students combine many ideas from different disciplines. Some …

Scientific success in the field of chemistry depends upon the mastery of a wide range of soft
skills, most notably scientific writing and speaking. However, training for scientific …

Despite representations' central role in conveying chemical phenomena, mastering them is
not trivial, given the wide variety of different conventions to interpret and use them …