Mental Models in Chemistry: Senior Chemistry Students' Mental Models of Chemical Bonding

Title
Mental Models in Chemistry: Senior Chemistry Students' Mental Models of Chemical Bonding
Publication Date
2002
Author(s)
Coll, Richard K
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Ioannina
Place of publication
Greece
DOI
10.1039/B2RP90014A
UNE publication id
une:10525
Abstract
In this paper we describe research into learners' mental models for chemical bonding. New Zealand senior secondary students, undergraduates and postgraduates' mental models for chemical bonding were probed using an interview protocol that included the use of a variety of common substances and focus cards that depicted model use in some way. The study found that the learners' mental models were simple and realist in nature, in contrast with the sophisticated and mathematically complex models they were exposed to during instruction. The learners drew upon some concepts from other models when their models proved inadequate to explain macroscopic events.
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Citation
Chemistry Education: Research and Practice in Europe, 3(2), p. 175-184
ISSN
1109-4028
Start page
175
End page
184

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