Implementing Team-based Learning in a Large Environmental Chemistry Course and its Impact on Student Learning and Perceptions

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Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3RP00158J, Paper
Priyanka Lekhi, Trish Varao-Sousa
Team-based Learning (TBL) is an instructional strategy where students participate in a set of activities including, applying course concepts to real-life case studies in instructor-selected teams. Here, we describe how...
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Effects of Formative Assessment with Technology on Students’ Meaningful Learning in Chemistry Equilibrium Concepts

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Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D2RP00340F, Paper
Tadesse Hagos, Dereje Andargie Andargie Kidanemariam
This study examines how students' conceptual and procedural knowledge of chemical equilibrium is affected by technology-supported formative assessment (TSFA) strategies. The study's embedded/nested mixed methods research design was used to...
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Different Strategies to Facilitate Meaningful Reflections Among Post-Secondary Students in a Community Service Learning Water Project

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Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3RP00184A, Paper
Karen Ho, Sahara R. Smith, Douglas B. Clark
This study explored how continuous diverse reflective exercises embedded in a Community Service Learning chemistry lab support science students' meaningful learning. The findings of this study are intended for those...
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Supporting Submicroscopic Reasoning in Students’ Explanations of Absorption Phenomena Using a Simulation-Based Activity

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Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3RP00153A, Paper
Natalia Spitha, Yujian Zhang, Samuel Pazicni, Sarah Fullington, Carla Morais, Amanda Rae Buchberger, Pamela Doolittle
The Beer-Lambert Law is a fundamental relationship in chemistry that helps connect macroscopic experimental observations (i.e., the amount of light exiting a solution sample) to a symbolic model composed of...
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How much is just maths? Investigating problem solving in chemical kinetics at the interface of chemistry and mathematics through the development of an extended mathematical modelling cycle

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Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3RP00168G, Paper
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Sofie Ye, Maja Elmgren, Magnus Jacobsson, Felix M Ho
Problem solving in chemical kinetics poses substantial challenges for university students as it often involves significant use of mathematics as a tool and language, with challenging translations and transitions between...
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Introducing an orthogonally polarized electron-rich alkene: synthesis of a zwitterionic boron-containing π-conjugated system

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Chem. Commun., 2023, 59,12350-12353
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC03975G, Communication
Nicolas Chrysochos, Sebastian Pätsch, Benedict J. Elvers, Ivo Krummenacher, Muneshwar Nandeshwar, Ganesan Prabusankar, Holger Braunschweig, Carola Schulzke, Prince Ravat, Anukul Jana
Here we are introducing an orthogonally polarized electron-rich alkene. Subsequently, we utilized this unique alkene motif for the synthesis of zwitterionic boron-containing π-conjugated compound.
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Beneficial effects of a new neuroprotective compound in neuronal cells and MPTP-administered mouse model of Parkinson’s disease

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Chem. Commun., 2023, 59,12306-12309
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC03069E, Communication
Izumi Kato, Yudai Ogawa, Fumika Yakushiji, Jiro Ogura, Masaki Kobayashi, Naoya Shindo, Satoshi Ichikawa, Katsumi Maenaka, Masahiro Sakaitani
A new compound, a derivative of 3,4,5-trimethoxy-N-phenyl benzamide bearing an 8′′-methylimidazopyridine moiety, is found to demonstrate neuroprotective effects by preventing cell death caused by oxidative stress.
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Portable SERS sensing of volatile aldehydes in alcohols by aldol condensation reaction on liquid interfacial plasmonic arrays

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Chem. Commun., 2023, 59,12342-12345
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC02228E, Communication
Hao Wang, Yujiao Wei, Liming Wang, Cheng Qu, Honglin Liu, Shengnan He
Portable SERS sensing volatile aldehydes in alcohols by high-sensitive aldol condensation reaction on liquid–liquid interfacial plasmonic arrays.
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