All Education research articles – Page 3
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NewsTweak your questions to improve students’ problem-solving skills
How changing the format of practice questions can improve learners’ skills
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Interview‘Students have to learn how to problem-solve by doing well-designed chemistry experiments’
Meet Michael Seery, an education researcher striving to improve the university experience for chemistry undergraduates
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NewsBoost confidence in STEM
Discover how writing tasks can stimulate learning and boost confidence
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NewsMechanistic reasoning in the chemistry classroom
Do teachers need to rethink their explanations depending on their teaching context?
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NewsHow to apply pedagogical knowledge effectively
Develop your PCK to help students grasp and apply subject knowledge
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NewsSame molecule, different representations
Chemistry is full of varied representations. How do we help our students identify the information encoded within them?
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IdeasWhen things go wrong in the classroom, a video can help
Practical demo gone wrong in the chemistry lab? Here’s how to save the day
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FeatureHelp students transition from primary to secondary
It’s tough growing into a new identity as a secondary school student. Here’s how teachers can help ease the transformation
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NewsDo our students suffer from chemophobia?
How your teaching can equip students to recognise and ward off misinformation
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FeatureImprove learning with cognitive science
Cognitive science promises to help us understand the human mind and, crucially for teachers, how it learns. It could improve your day-to-day teaching. Now there’s a thought …
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IdeasHow to bring your CPD from books to the classroom
Four easy steps to develop your teaching through books and articles
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NewsWhat affects students’ self-assessment skills?
A study investigating students’ self-assessed understanding has implications for your practice
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FeatureDon’t worry about summer learning loss
Kristy Turner arms you with the knowledge to understand and mitigate students’ forgetting over the holidays
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News5 tips for teaching VSEPR theory
Use the latest research to help your students form correct mental images when predicting molecular geometries
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NewsWhat is difficult about concentration?
Fresh insight offers tips for teaching the mathematics of moles, volume and molarity
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NewsUsing student-generated animations to assess conceptions
Harness the power of PowerPoint when teaching molecular motion to identify misconceptions and help students better understand the sub-microscopic world
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NewsResearchers find metacognition aids sub-microscopic understanding
Get research-based tips for improving your students’ submicroscopic understanding of particle models
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News5 tips for approaching formative assessment
Use these research-informed teaching tips to better uncover your classes’ core chemical thinking
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Interview‘Structure and bonding really gets to the heart of chemistry’
Meet Niki Kaiser, a chemistry teacher inspiring others to embrace evidence-based teaching practices
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News4 tips for using testing to assist learning
Why giving students short quizzes after an exam improves their chemistry learning performance