In 1992, the Journal of Chemical Education published a manuscript entitled �Why Some Students Don't Learn Chemistry: Chemical Misconceptions� by Mary B. Nakhleh. Thirty years later, Dr. Nakhleh's contributions to the chemistry education research (CER) literature stand as an impressive volume, providing insight into students' particulate thinking about atoms and molecules. This presentation will report findings from the Bretz CER group on the development of several concept inventories with items that assess this particulate thinking. Methodologies used to surface student thinking about particles and the students' performance on a variety of concept inventory items will be presented.

Assessment of particulate thinking and misconceptions

245th National Meeting (2013)

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