<br/>A student’s understanding of kinetics and reactions rates within chemistry is foundational to a wide variety of mechanisms and more overarching concepts presented to students in general and organic chemistry classes in the collegiate setting. While literature studying kinetics and reaction rates within collegiate curriculums specifically in general and organic chemistry cohorts has been steadily progressing, however, there remain gaps in assessing student’s comprehension of specific mental models via complex, multi-concept organic chemistry problems. We designed a survey incorporating, ranking, matching, adn multiple choice questions to gauge the students concept inventory regarding kinetics and reaction rates within cohorts of general and organic chemistry students as well as the students’ ability to discern applicable concepts from distracting features within presented structures. In addition to these questions, students were tasked with self-assessing the confidence they held regarding their answer on a 0-5 scale.

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