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Lecturer Perceptions of Student Difficulties in a First-Year Chemistry Course
Valda Kirkwood
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

David Symington
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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April 1996
Vol. 73 No. 4
p. 339

Abstract
This paper addresses the question of how the staff involved in the teaching of a first-year chemistry course define the problems experienced by the students in the course. All of the staff involved in the teaching of first-year chemistry in a relatively small Australasian university agreed to be interviewed for the study. The interviews revealed not only the way these people defined the sources of student difficulty but also the ways in which they believed these could be addressed. The paper reports an analysis of these data which reveals the diversity of views held. The implications of the data analysis are explored.
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Kirkwood, Valda; Symington, David. J. Chem. Educ. 1996 73 339.
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