Misconceptions in Chemistry: Its Identification and remedial measures

Mondal, Bhim Chandra; Chakraborty, Aniruddha

ISBN 10: 3659406813 / ISBN 13: 9783659406812

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

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Synopsis:

Misconceptions play vital role in learning chemistry. There are a variety of sources of misconceptions such as experiences encountered in daily life, traditional instructional strategies etc. Misconceptions are resistant to change, persistent, and difficult to extinguish even with instruction designed to address them. Effective teaching learning strategy is the key factor for understanding the concepts of chemistry. To adjust with the rapid explosion of knowledge of chemistry, the learners must be prepared to process information suitably and meaningfully so that the information can be treated for a longer time and can be used in different situations of life. To accomplish these objectives, the learners have to frame a concept in his cognitive domain. Transfer of learning mainly depends on concept formation because these concepts are the key building blocks of the structure of knowledge.In this book we present the identification and remediation of misconceptions in chemistry. First we identified their misconceptions using chemistry misconception test (CMT) and removed them through a improvised strategy by using some illustrative materials.

About the Author: Both the authors are Assistant Professor in Sponsored Teachers' Training College, Purulia, and Union Christian Training College, Beharampore, WB, India respectively. Their area of interests are Educational Psychology, Chemistry Education, Pedagogy etc. Both of the authors have written so many textbooks at graduation and post graduation level.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Misconceptions in Chemistry: Its ...
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New