
Fraser Scott
Fraser Scott is a senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Strathclyde.
He is interested in drug discovery and science education, and is a former high school teacher in Scotland.
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What’s best: flipped or in-class learning?
Discover how one approach can boost student learning and engagement
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Conceptual peer-to-peer questioning improves learning
Get the cogs turning for successful learning by encouraging the right kind of student interactions
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Evidence-based advice to help you choose the best videos for your teaching
Select the perfect multimedia resources to reduce cognitive load and boost learning with these top tips
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Drawing to embed complex chemical concepts
Discover how drawing diagrams can help boost student understanding
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Improve students’ understanding of stereoisomers with these evidence-based ideas
Discover three effective methods to help your students understand molecular rotations
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Improve students’ scientific literacy through inquiry
Tips to develop students’ experimental design skills without the need for practical chemistry
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Tweak your questions to improve students’ problem-solving skills
How changing the format of practice questions can improve learners’ skills
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Mechanistic reasoning in the chemistry classroom
Do teachers need to rethink their explanations depending on their teaching context?
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Same 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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Teaching tips for chemical kinetics
Students’ understanding is mostly assessed through numerical problems. Sometimes performance does not reflect understanding. Here’s why
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What affects students’ self-assessment skills?
A study investigating students’ self-assessed understanding has implications for your practice
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What is difficult about concentration?
Fresh insight offers tips for teaching the mathematics of moles, volume and molarity
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Researchers find metacognition aids sub-microscopic understanding
Get research-based tips for improving your students’ sub-microscopic understanding of particle models
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4 tips for using testing to assist learning
Why giving students short quizzes after an exam improves their chemistry learning performance
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6 tips for teaching reaction rates using graphs
What to look out for when teaching graphs in reaction kinetics
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Students’ writing reveals understanding of electron pushing
Use written assignments to probe student understanding of organic mechanisms