Learning Difficulties in Chemistry: An Overview
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2007-06-25
Authors
Sirhan, Ghassan
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Abstract
Chemistry is often regarded as a difficult subject, an observation which sometimes repels
learners from continuing with studies in chemistry.
This paper seeks to bring together the general
findings obtained from research over the past few decades for both school pupils and university
students in an attempt to suggest the key reasons for this difficulty. Suggestions are made on ways
to minimise the problems based on understandings of attitudes and motivation as well as the
psychological understandings
of how learning takes place.
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Learning Difficulties , Chemistry , Worki ng Memory Space , Motivation , Previous Knowledge