Publications
106. Diekman, A.; Ward, R.M.; Yezierski, E.J..; Bretz, S.L. "Developing Identity via Intentional Interdisciplinary Engagement: Exploring New Spaces for STEM Graduate Students' Professional Development," Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, submitted
105. Williams, N.; Griffith, E.; Gallardo-Williams, M.; Bretz, S.L. "Investigating Meaningful Learning in Virtual Reality Organic Chemistry Laboratories," Journal of Chemical Education, 2022, 99(2), 1100–1105.
104. Yezierski, E.J.; Bretz, S.L.; Diekman, A.; Ward, R.M. "S.M.A.R.T. Goals, Mentor Maps, & Developing Your Professional Identity," GP Chemist, November 2021.
103. Atkinson, M.B.; Bretz, S.L. “Measuring Changes in Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Reasoning with Reaction Coordinate Diagrams: A Longitudinal, Multi-institution Study,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2021, 98(4), 1061-1063
102. Ward, R.M.; Diekman, A.B.; Yezierksi, E.; Bretz, S.L.; Wright, T.; Chatha, C.; Das, A.; Kariyawasam, L.; Kirinda, V.; Sneddon, E.; Tapp, D.; Monroe, S.; Thompson, S.; Dandignac, M.; DeWitt, B.; Johnson, B. “Supporting Graduate Student Professional Development: Creating a Third Space for Conversation and Reflection,” Inside Higher Ed, January 7, 2021.
101. Atkinson, M.B.; Croisant, M.; Bretz, S.L. “Investigating First-Year Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Reasoning with Reaction Coordinate Diagrams when Choosing Among Particulate Level Reaction Mechanisms,” Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2021, 22, 199-213
100. Bretz, S.L. “From Marigolds to Molecules to Meaningful Learning,” Ohio J. Sci., 2020, 120(2), 88-89.
99. Chatha, C.J.; Bretz, S.L. “Adapting Interactive Interview Tasks to Remote Data Collection: Human Subjects Research that Requires Annotations and Manipulations of Chemical Structures during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2020, 97(11), 4196–4201
98. Atkinson, M.B.; Popova, M.; Croisant, M.; Reed, D.; Bretz, S.L. “Development of the Reaction Coordinate Diagram Inventory: Measuring Student Thinking and Confidence,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2020, 97(7), 1841-1851
97. Fullington, S.; Cheng, Z.; Caitlyn, T.; Miller, C.; Yang, K.; Ju, L.-C.; Bergstrom, A.; Shurina, B.; Bretz, S.L.; Page, R.; Tierney, D.; Crowder, M. “An Integrated Biophysical Approach to Discovering Mechanisms of NMD-1 Inhibition for Several Thiol-Containing Drugs,” Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2020
96. Abell, T.N.; Bretz, S.L. “Development of the Enthalpy and Entropy in Dissolution and Precipitation Inventory, Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96(9), 1804–1812
95. Roche Allred, Z.D.; Bretz, S.L. “Development of the Quantization and Probability Representations Inventory as a Measure of Students’ Understandings of Particulate and Symbolic Representations of Electron Structure,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96(8), 1558–1570
94. Abell, T.N.; Bretz, S.L. “Macroscopic Observations of Dissolving, Insolubility, and Precipitation: General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Students’ Ideas about Entropy Changes and Spontaneity,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96(3), 469–478
93. Herrington, D.; Sweeder, R.; Daubenmire, P.; Bauer, C.; Bretz, S.L.; Bunce, D.; Carmel, J.; Cole, R.; DeKorver, B.; Kelly, R.; Lewis, S.; Oliver-Hoyo, M.; Ryan, S.; Stains, M.; Towns, M.; Yezierski, E. “Supporting the Growth and Impact of the Chemistry Education Research Community,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96(3), 393–397
92. Roche Allred, Z.D.; Bretz, S.L. “University Chemistry Students’ Interpretations of Multiple Representations of the Helium Atom,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019, 20, 358–368
91. Croisant, M.F.; Bretz, S.L.; Konkolewicz, D. “Investigating Radical Reactivity and Structure-Property Relationships through Photopolymerization,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96(2), 348–353.
90. Bretz, S.L. “Evidence for the Importance of Laboratory Courses,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96(2), 193–195.
Invited Editorial
89. Marko, J.A.; Durgham, A.; Bretz, S.L.; Liu, W. “Electrochemical Benzylic Oxidation of C-H Bonds,” ChemComm, 2019, 55, 937–940
88. Bretz, S.L. "Equilibrium and Stress: Balancing One Marriage, a "Two-Body” Problem, and Three Children.” In Mom the Chemistry Professor: Personal Accounts and Advice from Chemistry Professors who are Mothers (2nd edition), (Cole, Marzabadi, Webster, and Woznack, Eds.). Springer Press, 2018, 57–74
87. Cheng, Z.; VanPelt, J.; Bergstrom, A.; Bethel, C.; Katko, A.; Miller, C.; Mason, K.; Cumming, E.; Zhang, H.; Kimble, R.; Fullington, S.; Bretz, S.L.; Nix, J.C.; Bonomo, R.A.; Tierney, D.; Page, R.C.; Crowder, M.W. “A Non-Canonical Metal Center Drives Activity of the Sediminispirochaeta smaragdinae metallo-ß-lactamase SPS-1,” Biochemistry, 2018, 57(35), 5218-5229.
86. Popova, M.; Bretz, S.L. “Organic Chemistry Students’ Understandings of What Makes a Good Leaving Group,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2018, 95(7), 1094–1101.
85. Popova, M.; Bretz, S.L. “ “It’s Only the Major Product that We Care About in Organic Chemistry:’ An Analysis of Students’ Annotations of Reaction Coordinate Diagrams,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2018, 95(7), 1086–1093
ACS Editor’s Choice
84. Popova, M.; Bretz, S.L. “Organic Chemistry Students’ Interpretations of the Surface Features of Reaction Coordinate Diagrams,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018, 19, 919–931
83. Popova, M.; Bretz, S.L. "Organic Chemistry Students’ Challenges with Coherence Formation between Reactions and Reaction Coordinate Diagrams,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018, 19, 732–745
82. Mercado Padilla, J.B.; Coombs, E.M.; De Jesus, J.P.; Bretz, S.L.; Danielson, N.D.“Iodine Coulometry of Various Reducing Agents including Thiols with Online Photocell Detection Coupled to a Multifunctional Chemical Analysis Station to Eliminate Student Endpoint Detection by Eye,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2018, 95(5), 777–782
81. Abell, T.N.; Bretz, S.L. “Dissolving Salts in Water: Students’ Particulate Explanations of Temperature Changes,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2018, 95(4), 504–511.
80. Bretz, S.L.; Mayo, A.V.M. “Development of the Flame Test Concept Inventory: Measuring Student Thinking about Atomic Emission,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2018, 95(1), 17–27.
79. Abell, T.N.; McCarrick, R.; Bretz, S.L.; Tierney, D.L. “Trispyrazolylborate Complexes: An Advanced Synthesis Experiment using Paramagnetic NMR, Variable Temperature NMR, and EPR Spectroscopies,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 94(12), 1960–1964.
78. Bretz, S.L. “Finding No Evidence for Learning Styles,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 94(7), 825-826.
Invited Editorial
77. Padilla Mercado, J.B.; Konkolewicz, D.; Bretz, S.L.; Danielson, N.D. “Indirect Determination of Zinc by Thiol Complexation and Iodine Coulometric Titration with Photodiode Detection,” Microchemical Journal, 2017, 134, 119–124.
76. Roche Allred, Z.D.; Tai, H.; Bretz, S.L.; Page, R.C. “Using PyMOL to Explore the Effects of pH on Non-Covalent Interactions between Immunoglobulin G and Protein A: A Guided Inquiry Biochemistry Activity,” Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2017, 45(6), 528–536.
75. Bretz, S.L.; Galloway, K.R.; Orzel, J.; Gross, E. “Faculty Goals, Inquiry, and Meaningful Learning in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory.” In Technology and Assessment Strategies for Improving Student Learning in Chemistry, M. Schultz, T.A. Holme, S. Schmid (Eds.), American Chemical Society Symposium Series, 2016, Vol. 1236, 101-115
74. Anzovino, M.E.; Bretz, S.L. “Organic Chemistry Students’ Fragmented Ideas about the Structure and Function of Nucleophiles and Electrophiles: A Concept Map Analysis,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016, 17, 1019-1029
73. Popova, M.; Bretz, S.L.; Hartley, C.S. “Visualizing Molecular Chirality in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory using Cholesteric Liquid Crystals,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2016, 93(6), 981-1162.
Cover Feature
72. Galloway, K.R.; Malakpa, Z.; Bretz, S.L. “Investigating Affective Experiences in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory: Students’ Perceptions of Control and Responsibility,” Journal of Chemical Education, 2016, 93(2), 227-238
71. Galloway, K.R.; Bretz, S.L. “Video Episodes and Action Cameras in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory: Eliciting Student Perceptions of Meaningful Learning,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016, 17, 139–155
