Congratulations to Alisha, Alison, and collaborator Dr. Peter Mahaffy for their latest publication in the Journal of Chemical Education!
They investigated systems thinking (ST) skills chemistry students do/do not naturally demonstrate during ST tasks, which implications for where place emphasis on teaching ST skills in a chemistry course.
Additionally, they created a ST rubric as a tool for assessing ST learning outcomes (LOs) whcih:
can be modified to elicit ST LOs aligned with a ST activity taught in your course
provides a way to assess ST tasks that encompass multiple forms of assessment (e.g., concept maps, written and verbal responses)
Thank you to SSHRC for funding this research through Alisha's CGS-D and an Insight Grant.