In 2011, the author was asked to write a report outlining the history of chemical education research (CER) as background for the 2012 NRC report by Singer, Nielsen and Schweingruber on discipline-based educational research (DBER). In his report, the author noted that DBER is not new. Nor is it always easy to differentiate CER (or PER) papers from those that deal with improved ways of teaching chemistry or physics, or to differentiate DBER in chemistry or physics from traditional science education research, particularly during the early years in the transition toward DBER. This Fall, the author submitted the final report to NSF of an analysis of chemical education research Ph.D. dissertations. The database developed for this project contained more than 550 Ph.D.  dissertations totaling roughly 130,000 pages. The goal of this paper will be to look at some of the patterns outlined in a 468-page report on Ph.D. dissertations in the CER field. <br/>

Report of an analysis of patterns in Ph.D. dissertations chemical education  research

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