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2/10/2026: What a fabulous group of faculty! I enjoyed spending the day with the Chemistry Education Interest Group at The Pennsylvania State University Department of Chemistry. Many thanks to Dr. Linlin Jensen for the kind invitation. I sure was energized by the department's scholarly teaching, SoTL, and DBER projects and hope to see everyone again this summer at the BCCE.
2/9/2026: The VisChem Express Institutes (VCXs) are blowing up. I have had the honor of personally teaching 481 U.S. secondary chemistry teachers the VisChem Approach and introducing them to Roy Tasker's molecular-level animations. We have 6 more VCXs through July 2026. Learn more at VisChem.org. That makes a total of 539 teachers who have learned the VisChem Approach through our project. Wow!
1/26/2026: Welcome to the YRG, Arden Fry and Addison Schumacher! We are thrilled to have new minds contributing to the Redox YouTube project. Welcome back to Hannah Prater, Gabby Peoples, and Shea Vaquera.
12/12/2025: DOUBLE congratulations to our latest grad, Miciah Mikes Thacker! Besides graduating this week, she has been hired as a Science (Chemistry) Long-Term Substitute Teacher at Lakota West High School! What an ideal position for a December grad. We're so proud, and your students are so fortunate to have you.
8/18/2025: What an honor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dr. Y. is the proud recipient of the 2026 ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry, supported by an endowed fund established by the ACS Exams Institute. C&EN announcement; Miami University press release
Research in the Yezierski Group aims to improve conceptual understanding of chemistry with a focus on the dynamics of teaching chemistry and teacher change. The goal of our work is characterizing and reforming instruction across a variety of grade levels (middle school, high school, and college) and learning environments (formal and informal). Projects have employed a variety of designs and methods that explore innovations in particulate-centered curricula, scientific reasoning, chemistry self-concept, learning in chemistry outreach, formative assessment, characterizing animation use and instructional materials, and teacher change. Current projects focus on instructional change and its outcomes using the VisChem Approach (storyboarding chemical phenomena supported with dynamic molecular-level animations) and the evaluation of YouTube chemistry videos using Mayer's Multimedia Principles.
If you're interested in learning more about our group's work, please browse our People and Publications pages. Please contact Dr. Yezierski to discuss what you could do and learn as an undergraduate member of the Yezierski Research Group. I am not currently accepting graduate students to the group.
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