Brittland K. DeKorver

• Grand Valley State University

Instructors make day-to-day decisions grounded in their own experiences, and this practice may be appropriate for the students who share similar experiences and backgrounds. But for students who come from a different socioeconomic status, nationality, racial or ethnic identity, gender or sexual identity, or ability status, the instructor’s experien...

Teachers want their students to learn, and they want that learning to be equitable, with opportunities for all students. But not all students have the same needs for success. Therefore, classroom accommodations are provided through Disability Offices within universities. These accommodations are intended to be implemented in each course the student...

Education is always evolving, and most recently has shifted to increased online or remote learning. Digital Learning and Teaching in Chemistry compiles the established and emerging trends in this field, specifically within the context of learning and teaching in chemistry. This book shares insights about five major themes: best practices for teachi...

General Chemistry serves virtually all STEM students. It has been accused of covering content in a “mile wide and inch deep” fashion. This has made it very difficult to assess, where chemistry educators have relied on assessments of specific topics. Assessing across all these different topics requires introducing many different chemical systems and...

This paper details the development of the Mechanisms app for organic chemistry, from inception to prototype and commercial release and expansion. The early research with students and instructors is described.

Chemistry-education research (CER) has progressed considerably in the United States since emerging as a discipline in the 1970s. Although CER graduate programs have become well established at a few universities, their success and growth may not be assured. Even with an increasing number of chemistry departments across the United States employing on...

Advocates for the use of story in science education assert that it can bolster understanding of science concepts in classroom settings and enhance interest and engagement. However, only a handful of classroom studies confirm these claims, and many of them use story as an introduction, not the primary method of content delivery. Reasons for this sho...

Journal impact factors are a metric often used to evaluate journals; they are calculated by considering a journal’s citation and publication rates during a specified time period. In some cases, impact factors can be misleading because they do not take into account the publication of different types of papers. In the Journal of Chemical Education, m...

Chemical demonstration shows are a popular form of informal science education (ISE), employed by schools, museums, and other institutions in order to improve the public's understanding of science. just as teachers employ formative and summative assessments in the science classroom to evaluate the impacts of their efforts, it is important to assess...

Building on previous success with a digital pipet badge, an evidence-centered design approach was used to develop new digital badges for measuring the volume of liquids with a buret and making a solution in a volumetric flask. These badges were implemented and assessed in two general chemistry courses. To earn the badges, students created videos of...

Four books are reviewed: Proof: The Science of Booze, by Adam Rogers; Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, by Mark Miodownik; Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction, by Charles Adler; and Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story, by Randy Olsen.

Efforts to reform undergraduate chemistry laboratory coursework typically focus on the curricula of introductory-level courses, while upper-level courses are bypassed. This study used video-stimulated recall to interview 17 junior- and senior- level chemistry majors after they carried out an experiment as part of a laboratory course. It is assumed...

Little research exists on college students' learning goals in chemistry, let alone specifically pertaining to laboratory coursework. Because students' learning goals are linked to achievement and dependent on context, research on students' goals in the laboratory context may lead to better understanding about the efficacy of lab curricula. This stu...

Four books are reviewed: What If? by Randall Munroe, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, by Ted Chiang, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yval Noah Harari, and Gulp, by Mary Roach.Keywords: General Public; Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary; Humor/Puzzles/Games; History/Philosophy; Public Understanding/Outreach; Forensic Chemistry; Professio...

This review focuses on Investigating Chemistry through Inquiry: Experiments Using Open and Guided Inquiry Approaches, by Donald L. Volz and Ray Smola, a lab manual that provides teachers with inquiry experiments for implementation using Vernier technology.Keywords (Audience): High School/Introductory Chemistry

Every chemistry educator will learn something from the wide range of topics in this book, which includes the expertise of dozens of authors, provides hundreds of resources, and covers nearly every aspect of teaching and learning. Keywords (Audience): High School / Introductory Chemistry