Publications

Shi, L., Stachl, C., Popova, M.*, Linking departmental climate to the sense of belonging of chemistry graduate students and postdocs: Evaluation and insights from the DCaDEI survey.

Chemistry Education Research and Practice (in review)

Ward, L., Rotich, F., Raker, J. R., Komperda, R., Nedungadi, S., Popova, M.*, Design, development, and evaluation of the Organic chemistry Representational Competence Assessment (ORCA).

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., DOI: 10.1039/d3rp00188a

Jones, T., Ahmed, R., Cieza, E., Pratt, J. M.*, Popova, M.*, Experiences of marginalized women pursuing doctoral degrees in chemistry: The critical role of recognition.

J. Res. Sci. Teach., https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21986

Feel free to check out Tamera’s talk at the 2023 Three Minutes Theses Competition that summarizes this work.

Rotich, F., Ward, L., Beck, C., Popova, M.*, Attention is currency: How surface features of Lewis structures influence organic chemistry student reasoning about stability.

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2024, 25, 1071 – 1089

Popova, M.*, Bridging chemistry education research and practice through research-practice partnerships.

Frontiers in Education, 2024, 9:1401835.

Ward, L., Hoang, J., Croatt, M. P., Walsh, J., Popova, M.*; Remote teaching as the catalyst for change in teaching values and practices: Experiences of instructors within one chemistry department during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Education, 2024, 9:1371132.

Kraft, A., Popova, M., Erdmann, R. M., Harshman, J., Stains, M.*; Tensions between depth and breadth: An exploratory investigation of chemistry assistant professors’ perspectives on content coverage

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2023, 24, 567-576.

Thompson, B., Bunch, Z., Popova, M.*; A review of literature on the quality and use of chemistry textbooks.

J. Chem. Educ., 2023, 100, 8, 2884–2895

Deiab, G. A.*, Popova M., Bashatwah, R., Ardakani, A., Aldhirat, J., Ayyad, A., Alebraheem, A.; Pharmacy students’ success with organic chemistry reactions of small versus large drug-like molecules.

J. Chem. Educ., 2023, 100, 4, 1426–1433.

Jones, T., Romanov, A., Pratt, J., Popova, M.*; Multi-framework case study characterization of organic chemistry instructors’ approaches toward teaching with representations.

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2022, 23, 930-947.

Shi, L., Popova, M., Erdmann, R., Pellegrini, A., Le, B., Johnson, V., Nelson, T., Nelson, Z., Undersander, M., Stains, M.*; Exploring the complementarity of measures of instructional practices.

CBE-Life Science Education, 2022, 22:ar1, 1–9.

Gurung, E., Jacob, R., Bunch, Z., Thompson, B., Popova, M.*; Evaluating the effectiveness of organic chemistry textbooks for promoting representational competence.

J. Chem. Educ., 2022, 99, 5, 2044–2054.

Feel free to check out Maia’s CERC Webinar organized by ACS, Division of Chemical Education in which she summarized the results of this and several other studies.

Ward, L., Rotich, F., Hoang, J., Popova, M.*; Representational competence under the magnifying glass: The interplay between student reasoning skills, conceptual understanding, and the nature of representations.

In Student Reasoning in Organic Chemistry: Research Advances and Evidence-based Instructional Practices. RSC for the Advances in Chemistry Education Series, 2022.

Invited Book Chapter

Feel free to check out Lyniesha’s talk at the IUPAC CCCE 2021 conference, where she presented about this work.

Popova, M.*, Jones, T.;  Chemistry instructors’ intentions toward developing, teaching, and assessing student representational competence skills.

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 2021, 22, 733-748

Popova, M., Kraft, A., Harshman, J., Stains, M.*; Changes in teaching beliefs of early-career chemistry faculty: A longitudinal investigation.

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 2021, 22, 431-442.

Atkinson, M. B.; Popova, M.; Croisant, M.; Reed, D. J.; Bretz, S. L.*; Development of the reaction coordinate diagram inventory: Measuring student thinking and confidence with reaction coordinate diagrams.

J. Chem. Educ. 2020, 97, 7, 1841-1851

Popova, M.; Shi, L.; Harshman, J.; Kraft, A.; Stains, M.*; Untangling a complex relationship: Teaching beliefs and instructional practices of assistant chemistry faculty at research-intensive institutions.

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 2020, 21, 513-527

Popova, M.; Bretz, S. L.*; Organic chemistry students’ interpretations of the surface features of reaction coordinate diagrams.
Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 2018, 19, 919-931

Popova, M.; Bretz, S. L.*; Organic chemistry students’ challenges with coherence formation between reactions and reaction coordinate diagrams.
Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 2018, 19, 732-745

Feel free to check out Maia’s invited talk at the 2019 CERG Webinar of the Royal Society of Chemistry where she presented results of this work:

Popova, M.; Bretz, S. L.*; Organic chemistry students’ understandings of what makes a good leaving group.
J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95 (7), 1094-1101

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.
J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95 (7), 1086-1093

ACS Editors’ Choice Award

Popov, N.; Honaker, L. W.; Popova, M.; Usol’tseva, N. V., Mann, E. K.; Jákli, A.; Popov, P.*; Thermotropic liquid crystal-assisted chemical and biological sensors.

MDPI Materials. 2017, 11, 20.

Featured on the cover of January 2018 issue of MDPI Materials

Popova, M.; Bretz, S. L.; Hartley, C. S.* Visualizing molecular chirality in the organic chemistry laboratory using cholesteric liquid crystals.
J. Chem. Educ. 2016, 93, 1096-1099

Featured on the cover of June 2016 issue of Journal of Chemical Education

Feel free to check out Maia’s talk at the 2015 Chirality at the Nanoscale Conference where she presented about the development of this laboratory activity:

Popova, M. N.; Jharova, M. A.; Usol’tseva, N. V.; Smirnova, A. I.; Bogdanov, V. S.* Rheological and tribological properties of industrial oil with mesogenic additives and carbon nanotubes.

Liq. Cryst. and Appl. 2014, 14, 52-61