Senior High School Students' Understanding of Relationships Between Structures and Properties of Matter
YANG Ji-Dong1, ZHOU Hui2, WANG Hou-Xiong2
1. College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, West Anhui University, Lu'an 237012, China;
2. Institute of Chemical Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Abstract This paper interviewed 15 high school students,and drew the following conclusions by paying attention to whether they could use and how to use structure-property relationships to predict the properties of the matters:(1) students getting the correct conclusions didn't mean that they really understood the essence of the questions;(2) for the same question,different students had different ways to solve it;(3) students tended to use shortcuts to get the conclusions.
YANG Ji-Dong, ZHOU Hui, WANG Hou-Xiong. Senior High School Students' Understanding of Relationships Between Structures and Properties of Matter[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 38(11): 24-27.