Of Mental Models, Assumptions and Heuristics: The Case of Acids and Acid Strength

This study explored what cognitive resources (i.e., units of knowledge necessary to learn) first-semester organic chemistry students used to make decisions about acid strength and how those resources guided the prediction, explanation and justification of trends in acid strength. We were specificall...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McClary, LaKeisha Michelle
Other Authors: Talanquer, Vicente
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194008