Mechanistic Reasoning in Organic Chemistry: A Scoping Review of How Students Describe and Explain Mechanisms in the Chemistry Education Research Literature

The Task Navigator Following the STRAKNAP Concept: Development, Application, and Evaluation of a New Scaffold to Support Nonmajor Chemistry Students while Solving Tasks in Organic Chemistry

(2021) Jolanda Hermanns   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Mechanisms, Models, and Explanations: Analyzing the Mechanistic Paths Students Take to Reach a Product for Familiar and Unfamiliar Organic Reactions

(2021) Samantha K. Houchlei et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Organic Chemistry Students’ Written Descriptions and Explanations of Resonance and Its Influence on Reactivity

(2021) Paul B. Brandfonbrener et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Connecting explanations to representations: benefits of highlighting techniques in tutorial videos on students’ learning in organic chemistry

(2021) Marc Rodemer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION

Homing in on the Capabilities That Are Most Predictive of Student Success in the First Semester of Organic Chemistry

(2020) Rosa Betancourt-Pérez et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Arrows on the Page Are Not a Good Gauge: Evidence for the Importance of Causal Mechanistic Explanations about Nucleophilic Substitution in Organic Chemistry

(2020) Olivia M. Crandell et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Exploring Students’ Understanding of Resonance and Its Relationship to Instruction

(2020) Dihua Xue et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Exploring Student Thinking about Addition Reactions

(2020) Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Using the Research Literature to Develop an Adaptive Intervention to Improve Student Explanations of an SN1 Reaction Mechanism

(2020) Amber J. Dood et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Getting Past the Rules and to the WHY: Causal Mechanistic Arguments When Judging the Plausibility of Organic Reaction Mechanisms

(2019) Nicholas E. Bodé et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Development and evaluation of a Lewis acid–base tutorial for use in postsecondary organic chemistry courses

(2019) Amber J. Dood et al.   Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Organic Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything (OCLUE): A Transformed Organic Chemistry Curriculum

(2019) Melanie M. Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Resolving the complexity of organic chemistry students' reasoning through the lens of a mechanistic framework

(2018) I. Caspari et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

This mechanistic step is “productive”: organic chemistry students' backward-oriented reasoning

(2018) I. Caspari et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Patterns of Reactions: A card sort task to investigate students’ organization of organic chemistry reactions

(2018) Kelli R. Galloway et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

A Comparison of How Undergraduates, Graduate Students, and Professors Organize Organic Chemistry Reactions

(2018) Kelli R. Galloway et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

How Are Students Solving Familiar and Unfamiliar Organic Chemistry Mechanism Questions in a New Curriculum?

(2018) Declan M. Webber et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Concept-Oriented Task Design: Making Purposeful Case Comparisons in Organic Chemistry

(2018) Nicole Graulich et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Organic Chemistry Students’ Understandings of What Makes a Good Leaving Group

(2018) Maia Popova et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Using Lexical Analysis To Predict Lewis Acid–Base Model Use in Responses to an Acid–Base Proton-Transfer Reaction

(2018) Amber J. Dood et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach

(2018) Zachary Munn et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Reasoning about Reactions in Organic Chemistry: Starting It in General Chemistry

(2018) Olivia M. Crandell et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Characterization of First-Semester Organic Chemistry Peer-Led Team Learning and Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning Students’ Use and Explanation of Electron-Pushing Formalism

(2018) Sarah Beth Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Compromised Structures: Verbal Descriptions of Mechanism Diagrams

(2017) Gautam Bhattacharyya et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Practicing What We Preach: Assessing “Critical Thinking” in Organic Chemistry

(2017) Ryan L. Stowe et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Mapping students' modes of reasoning when thinking about chemical reactions used to make a desired product

(2016) M. L. Weinrich et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Organic chemistry students' fragmented ideas about the structure and function of nucleophiles and electrophiles: a concept map analysis

(2016) Mary E. Anzovino et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Investigating Students’ Reasoning about Acid–Base Reactions

(2016) Melanie M. Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Mapping students' conceptual modes when thinking about chemical reactions used to make a desired product

(2015) M. L. Weinrich et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Use of representation mapping to capture abstraction in problem solving in different courses in chemistry

(2015) H. Sevian et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Organic chemistry students' ideas about nucleophiles and electrophiles: the role of charges and mechanisms

(2015) Mary E. Anzovino et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

The tip of the iceberg in organic chemistry classes: how do students deal with the invisible?

(2015) Nicole Graulich   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Mental Rolodexing: Senior Chemistry Majors’ Understanding of Chemical and Physical Properties

(2015) Ryan S. DeFever et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Mechanisms before Reactions: A Mechanistic Approach to the Organic Chemistry Curriculum Based on Patterns of Electron Flow

(2015) Alison B. Flynn et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Trials and tribulations: student approaches and difficulties with proposing mechanisms using the electron-pushing formalism

(2014) Gautam Bhattacharyya   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Students' understanding of alkyl halide reactions in undergraduate organic chemistry

(2014) Daniel Cruz-Ramírez de Arellano et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Acid–Base Learning Outcomes for Students in an Introductory Organic Chemistry Course

(2014) Carlee Stoyanovich et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Students’ Understandings of Acid Strength: How Meaningful Is Reliability When Measuring Alternative Conceptions?

(2014) Stacey Lowery Bretz et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Intuitive Judgments Govern Students’ Answering Patterns in Multiple-Choice Exercises in Organic Chemistry

(2014) Nicole Graulich   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Scoping reviews: time for clarity in definition, methods, and reporting

(2014) Heather L. Colquhoun et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency

(2014) Mai T. Pham et al.   Research Synthesis Methods

Rethinking chemistry: a learning progression on chemical thinking

(2013) Hannah Sevian et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

From Source to Sink: Mechanistic Reasoning Using the Electron-Pushing Formalism

(2013) Gautam Bhattacharyya   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Chemistry, Life, the Universe, and Everything: A New Approach to General Chemistry, and a Model for Curriculum Reform

(2013) Melanie Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

When Atoms Want

(2013) Vicente Talanquer   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Modes of reasoning in self-initiated study groups in chemistry

(2012) Karen Christian et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Problem types in synthetic organic chemistry research: Implications for the development of curricular problems for second-year level organic chemistry instruction

(2012) Jeffrey R. Raker et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Does Mechanistic Thinking Improve Student Success in Organic Chemistry?

(2012) Nathaniel P. Grove et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Decorating with Arrows: Toward the Development of Representational Competence in Organic Chemistry

(2012) Nathaniel P. Grove et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Students' understanding of acids/bases in organic chemistry contexts

(2011) David P. Cartrette et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Organic Chemistry Educators’ Perspectives on Fundamental Concepts and Misconceptions: An Exploratory Study

(2011) Jennifer M. Duis   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

What happens when representations fail to represent? Graduate students’ mental models of organic chemistry diagrams

(2010) Amanda M. Strickland et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Reasonable reasoning: multi-variate problem-solving in organic chemistry

(2010) Adam Kraft et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Scoping studies: advancing the methodology

(2010) Danielle Levac et al.   Implementation Science

Assessment of Organic Chemistry Students’ Knowledge of Resonance-Related Structures

(2010) Rosa Betancourt-Pérez et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Alternative conceptions of organic chemistry topics among fourth year chemistry students

(2008) Gregory T. Rushton et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Making sense of the arrow-pushing formalism among chemistry majors enrolled in organic chemistry

(2008) Robert Ferguson et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Implementing POGIL in the lecture and the Science Writing Heuristic in the laboratory—student perceptions and performance in undergraduate organic chemistry

(2008) Jacob D. Schroeder et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice

What can we do about ‘Parker’? A case study of a good student who didn't ‘get’ organic chemistry

(2008) Trisha L. Anderson et al.   Chemistry Education Research and Practice