Doing the Research that Informs Practice: A Retrospective View of One Group's Attempt to Study The Teaching and Learning of Organic Chemistry

• Published in: Chemistry, an Asian journal Vol. 12; no. 13; pp. 1413 - 1420
• Main Authors: Bodner, George M., Ferguson, Rob, Çalimsiz, Selçuk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 04.07.2017
• Subjects: Biochemistry; Chemistry; chemistry education; Chemistry, Organic - education; Colleges & universities; Education; educational research; Humans; Learning; Organic chemistry; organic chemistry courses; Physical chemistry; Problem solving; Research - education; Retrospective Studies; Students; Teaching; chemistry education; educational research; problem-solving; organic chemistry courses

The idea that the focus of educational research should be on results that can inform the practice of teaching has been an implicit assumption for so many years that one would be hard‐pressed to trace it back to an individual source. At one time, the people doing such research in STEM disciplines wer...