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Maia gave an invited talk at ECU about instructional support for developing representational competence!
Title: Characterization of Student Representational Competence and Instructional Support for Developing this Set of Skills
Abstract: Learning and communicating with representations is an essential component of chemistry instruction. The process of successfully using multiple representations to think about, communicate, and create meaning for a phenomenon defines representational competence. In this talk, we will examine organic chemistry students’ representational competence skills when reasoning about various representations of chemical structure. We will also explore how the current instruction supports students in developing these skills, as well as the effectiveness of organic chemistry textbooks for promoting representational competence.
April 8, 2022
