PROJECTS

Fostering Chemical Thinking

The project focuses on investigating student reasoning about core concepts and ideas in chemistry and designing educational strategies and resources to strengthen students' ability to apply chemical thinking in relevant contexts.

Collaborators: John Pollard (UA). Visit the Project's Website.

Systems Thinking in Chemistry Education

This project focuses on developing a framework and educational resources to support the teaching of chemistry using a systems thinking approach at all educational levels.

Collaborators: IUPAC SaSTICE Project. Visit the Project's Website

Investigating Classroom Discourse in Active Learning Environments for Large Enrollment Chemistry Courses

The project seeks to characterize the essential features of effective task design and implementation in different active learning environments that foster the productive engagement of diverse students in discourse practices known to promote meaningful learning

Collaborators: Renee Cole (UIowa), Greg Rushton (MTSU), Lisa Shah (Stony Brook University)

Developing Instructional Teams for Evidence-Based Instruction in Large Collaborative Learning Environments. 

The project focuses on investigating how to support the work of instructional teams to strengthen their ability to design, implement, and assess instructional tasks that actively involve groups of students in high-level thinking in large collaborative learning environments.

Collaborators: Lisa Elfring (UA), Paul Blowers (UA). Visit the Project's Website.