Chemistry education research (CER) integrates chemistry content knowledge, the use of theories of how students learn, and methods from education and psychology to explore how students learn chemistry in order to develop evidence-based chemistry instructional practices. CER in the Atkinson Research Group at the University of North Texas specifically investigates how chemistry students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels learn chemistry, as well as how they experience the learning of chemistry.
Research
The Atkinson Research Group uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how undergraduate and graduate students learn chemistry, with a focus on three areas of inquiry: student understanding of chemistry representations, assessment instrument development, and investigation of experiences in chemistry and STEM.
