Chemistry reasoning among college students

Benjamin Kwong Yee Chan

doi:10.26182/5b85f90962b93

Chemistry reasoning among college students

Benjamin Kwong Yee Chan

Graduate School of Education

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An instrument was constructed to measure the dimensions of evaluating and integrating in chemistry reasoning. When administered to 300 college chemistry students from a premier independent school in Singapore, it was found to contain items with good facility and discrimination indices, and to have good internal consistency. Evaluating and integrating are strongly correlated with each other. Significant positive correlations are also found between these dimensions and academic performance, intelligence, use of learning strategies, and educational experience, though many of the correlations are numerically small. The instrument needs to be developed further to investigate the complex relationships among these variables.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctorate
Awarding Institution	The University of Western Australia
Supervisors/Advisors	Punch, Keith, Supervisor Houghton, Stephen, Supervisor
Award date	19 Jun 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26182/5b85f90962b93
Publication status	Unpublished - 2018

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