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Lenzer, Stefanie; Smarsly, Bernd; Graulich, Nicole – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The need to develop clean-energy storage systems, harvesting technologies, and new functional materials are but a few of the many contemporary challenges in the domain of science today. To address these challenges, problem solving has become a key skill of the 21st century. It is generally documented, however, that experts and students differ in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Sichau, Christian – Science and Education, 2000
Teaching thermodynamics to undergraduate students is reduced to mere mathematical treatment of Gedankenexperimente based on two abstract fundamental postulates of thermodynamics. Attempts to remedy deficiencies of such courses with aims of taking the historical context into consideration in order to illustrate the importance of socioeconomical…
Descriptors: College Science, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Science History