An Evaluation of a Teaching Intervention to Promote Students’ Ability to Use Multiple Levelsof Representation When Describing and Explaining Chemical Reactions

Students are generally known to memorise and regurgitate chemical equations without sufficient understanding of the changes that occur at the particulate level. In addition, they often fail to recognise the significance of the symbols and formulas that are used to represent chemical reactions. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chandrasegaran, Chandra, Treagust, David, Mocerino, Mauro
Format: Journal Article
Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36457