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Location:
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KFC Courts |
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Date:
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Tuesday, Aug.02 |
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Time:
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6:00PM - 6:45PM
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Author:
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Amy D. Robertson, University of Washington
(206) 251-1194, awrob@uw.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C McDermott
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Abstract:
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One of the fundamental notions in basic chemistry is that a chemical change is a process that transforms substances and conserves atoms. As part of a multi-year study on student reasoning about topics related to the particle nature of matter, a set of questions was designed to probe the extent to which university-level chemistry students apply the description of chemical change articulated above. Results from these questions will be presented and compared with results from previous studies involving K-12 students.
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Footnotes:
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*This work has been supported under a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
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