Session: Chemical Education Research: Learning Chemistry Is All about How You Think and What You See (2014 SACNAS National Conference)

Thursday, October 16, 2014: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM

LACC 306AB (Los Angeles Convention Center)

Chair:

Alegra Eroy-Reveles, PhD, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

Description: Researchers in Chemical Education use scientific methods to study the teaching and learning of chemistry. Chemical Education Research is conducted at all types of universities (PhD, Masters, Bachelors-granting institutions) and there are many opportunities available for undergraduates, K-12 teachers, and science faculty interested in pursuing CER projects.

10:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:20 AM

Insights into how students learn from molecular visualizations
Resa Kelly, PhD , Associate Professor , San Jose State University

10:40 AM

Transcending space and time: Using visualizations to explain chemical processes from the molecular to the macroscopic
Barbara Gonzalez, PhD , Professor , California State University, Fullerton

11:00 AM

Student Generated Concept Maps as a Probe of Understanding of Chemical Equilibrium
Nahyr Rovira Figueroa, PhD , Lecturer , St. John Fisher College

11:20 AM

Flipped Classrooms, Active Learning, and Student Learning in Large Enrollment General Chemistry Classes
Jack Eichler, PhD , Assistant Professor , UC Riverside

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