EFFECTIVENESS OF GREEN CHEMISTRY WITH SCIENCE WRITING IN ENHANCING UNDERSTANDING CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS

Year 2016, Volume: 5 , 20 - 25, 01.09.2016

Sheila Shamuganathan Gilbeth Andrew John Mageswary Karpudewan

Abstract

In this study attempt was made to investigate the
effectiveness of green chemistry with science writing heuristic (SWH) enhancing
understanding of chemistry concepts among pre-university students. Students
enrolled in the Matriculation Colleges in Malaysia are the top notch students
in the country. For this purpose data has been collected from 208
pre-university students in the study as an experimental or control groups.  The experimental group was taught the content
using SWH instructional approach while the control group was taught the same
content using traditional approach.  The
data was analysed using ANCOVA and findings obtained from the quantitative
analysis on understanding of chemistry concepts reveals that there is a
significant change in understanding of concepts (F (1,204) = 99.549, p <
0.05 partial eta squared =0.335  which
favours the experimental group. These results revealed that the green chemistry
with SWH can improved their chemistry concepts understanding. The implication
of the study with respect to pre-university education has been provided with
some highlights on the limitation of the study well as contribution,
recommendations and suggestion for further research.

Keywords

Understanding chemistry concept, science writing heuristics, green chemistry

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