Journal article
Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Epistemic Criteria for Scientific Models
Journal of chemical education, Vol.97(1), pp.16-26
01/14/2020
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00505
Abstract
To engage meaningfully with scientific models, undergraduate students must come to understand what counts as a scientific model and why. To gain a sense of the characteristics that undergraduate chemistry students ascribe to scientific models, we analyzed survey data that address students’ ideas about both model criteria in general and criteria related to specific models of chemical phenomena. The findings suggest that undergraduate general chemistry students possess some productive and some intuitive ideas about the characteristics of scientific models but may not have systematic or coherent conceptions about models across contexts.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Epistemic Criteria for Scientific Models
- Creators
- Katherine Lazenby - Department of ChemistryAvery Stricker - Department of ChemistryAlexandra Brandriet - Auburn UniversityCharlie A Rupp - Department of ChemistryNicole M Becker - Department of Chemistry
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of chemical education, Vol.97(1), pp.16-26
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc
- DOI
- 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00505
- ISSN
- 0021-9584
- eISSN
- 1938-1328
- Grant note
- name: National Science Foundation, award: 1650114, ???DUE-1611622???
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/14/2020
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984216705202771
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