Assessing secondary and college students' implicit assumptions about the particulate nature of matter: Development and validation of the structure and motion of matter survey

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1359-1365

  Stains, Marilyne ^a   Escriu Sune, Marta ^b   De Santizo, Myrna Lisseth Molina Alvarez ^c   Sevian, Hannah ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c Galileo University   (Guatemala)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical education research; Elementary middle school science; First year undergraduate general; Gases; High school introductory chemistry; Kinetic molecular theory; Learning theories; Solutions solvents; Testing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052832276     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed1002509     Document Type: Article

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