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Personal Development of Doctoral Students (2024)
Journal Article
Riby, D. M., & Rees, S. (2024). Personal Development of Doctoral Students. Encyclopedia, 4(2), 743-752. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4020047

Definition: Personal development refers to the process of increasing one’s self-awareness, associated increases of self-esteem, increasing skills, and fulfilling one’s aspirations. The current paper reflects on these elements within the doctoral jour... Read More about Personal Development of Doctoral Students.

Inconsistent Language Use in Online Resources Explaining the Mole Has Implications for Students’ Understanding (2022)
Journal Article
Rees, S. W., & Bruce, M. (2022). Inconsistent Language Use in Online Resources Explaining the Mole Has Implications for Students’ Understanding. Journal of Chemical Education, 99(7), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00199

The quantity amount of substance (symbol “n”) and its SI unit, the mole (symbol “mol”), are unfamiliar to novice chemistry students. Developing a good understanding of this quantity and its unit has previously been demonstrated to be problematic. In... Read More about Inconsistent Language Use in Online Resources Explaining the Mole Has Implications for Students’ Understanding.

The Creative Sciences (2021)
Journal Article
Rees, S., & Newton, D. (2021). The Creative Sciences. School science review, 382, 57-62

Creativity lies at the heart of science teaching and learning. However, stereotypically, creativity is more widely associated with the arts than the sciences. In this article, we challenge this perception and demonstrate how to teach for and with cre... Read More about The Creative Sciences.

The development of chemical language usage by “non-traditional” students: the interlanguage analogy (2018)
Journal Article
Rees, S., Kind, V., & Newton, D. (2018). The development of chemical language usage by “non-traditional” students: the interlanguage analogy. Research in Science Education, 51(2), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-018-9801-0

Students commonly find specialist scientific language problematic. This study investigated developments in chemical language usage by six non-traditional students over the course of 1 to 4 years. The students participated in semi-structured interview... Read More about The development of chemical language usage by “non-traditional” students: the interlanguage analogy.

Meeting the Challenge of Chemical Language Barriers in University Level Chemistry Education (2018)
Journal Article
Rees, S., Kind, V., & Newton, D. (2019). Meeting the Challenge of Chemical Language Barriers in University Level Chemistry Education. Israel Journal of Chemistry, 59(6-7), 470-477. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijch.201800079

The specific yet varied challenges chemical language presents to students learning the subject are widely recognised. However, to effectively engage a student population becoming increasingly diverse in terms of culture, language and prior knowledge... Read More about Meeting the Challenge of Chemical Language Barriers in University Level Chemistry Education.

Can language focussed activities improve understanding of chemical language in non-traditional students? (2018)
Journal Article
Rees, S., Kind, V., & Newton, D. (2018). Can language focussed activities improve understanding of chemical language in non-traditional students?. Chemistry education research and practice, 19(3), 755-766. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8rp00070k

Students commonly find the language of chemistry challenging and a barrier to developing understanding. This study investigated developments in chemical language understanding by a group of non-traditional students over the duration of a one year pre... Read More about Can language focussed activities improve understanding of chemical language in non-traditional students?.

Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists (2016)
Journal Article
Bruce, M., Coffer, P., Rees, S., & Robson, J. (2016). Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists. Chemistry education research and practice, 17, 580-589. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6rp00005c

Many undergraduate students find the production of an extended piece of academic writing challenging. This challenge is more acute in the sciences where production of extended texts is infrequent throughout undergraduate studies. This paper reports t... Read More about Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists.

Utilising Data-driven Learning in Chemistry Teaching: a Shortcut to Improving Chemical Language Comprehension (2014)
Journal Article
Rees, S., Bruce, M., & Bradley, S. (2014). Utilising Data-driven Learning in Chemistry Teaching: a Shortcut to Improving Chemical Language Comprehension. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 10(1), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.11120/ndir.2014.00028

This article describes the development of the FOCUS project and specific pedagogical strategies to improve understanding of the language of chemistry. The importance of language comprehension skills for success in learning chemistry has recently been... Read More about Utilising Data-driven Learning in Chemistry Teaching: a Shortcut to Improving Chemical Language Comprehension.

Embedding language learning strategies within a Foundation Chemistry course using the FOCUS project (2014)
Journal Article
Rees, S., & Bruce, M. (online). Embedding language learning strategies within a Foundation Chemistry course using the FOCUS project. InForm, 12-14

This article outlines the development of a corpus of good quality student texts in chemistry (The FOCUS project) and how it has been used to develop language understanding within a foundation Chemistry course. The functionality of the concordancing t... Read More about Embedding language learning strategies within a Foundation Chemistry course using the FOCUS project.

Can I Have a Word Please – Strategies to Enhance Understanding of Subject Specific Language in Chemistry by International and Non-traditional Students (2013)
Journal Article
Rees, S., Bruce, M., & Nolan, S. (2013). Can I Have a Word Please – Strategies to Enhance Understanding of Subject Specific Language in Chemistry by International and Non-traditional Students. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 9(1), 8-13. https://doi.org/10.11120/ndir.2013.00012

In this paper we discuss the outcomes of our research into effective teaching strategies to enhance understanding of subject specific language by international and non-traditional students. Teaching strategies with an emphasis on improving scientific... Read More about Can I Have a Word Please – Strategies to Enhance Understanding of Subject Specific Language in Chemistry by International and Non-traditional Students.