CER Resources

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  1. ✴ACS DivCHED

  2. ✴ACS DivCHED Committee on Chemistry Education Research

  3. ✴CER listserv

  4. ✴NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teaching)

  5. ✴NSTA (National Science Teachers Association)

  6. ✴PKAL (Project Kaleidoscope), Faculty 21 Members

Committees, Organizations, & Societies that promote CER

Position Statements & Articles

  1. ✴Hiring and Promotion in Chemical Education by Bauer, Clevenger, Cole, Jones, Kelter, Oliver-Hoyo, and Sawrey in the Journal of Chemical Education, 2008, 85, 898-901. Offers guidance to candidates for faculty positions in chemistry education and to departments seeking to hire a faculty member in chemistry education.

  2. ✴The American Chemical Society Statement on Scholarship in Chemistry, including chemistry education research, was written by SOCED and approved by the ACS Board of Directors in 2007.

  3. ✴Measuring Productivity in College-Level Chemistry Education Scholarship by Norbert Pienta and published in the Journal of Chemical Education, 2004, 81(4), 579-583, examines differences in publication rates between chemistry education and other chemistry disciplines.

  4. ✴Quality Criteria and Exemplary Papers in Chemical Education Research, by Eybe and Schmidt in the International Journal of Science Education, 2001, 23, 209-225. Discusses criteria for quality research studies in chemistry education.

  5. ✴Report of the Task Force on Chemical Education Research by Bunce, Gabel, Herron, and Jones in the Journal of Chemical Education, 1994, 71, 850. Discusses categories and characteristics of chemistry education research.