{"title":"The Digital Task Navigator as a Scaffold for Supporting Higher Education Students while Solving Tasks in Organic Chemistry","authors":"David Keller, and , Jolanda Hermanns*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00518","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p >Scaffolds can be seen as a suitable tool to support students’ learning chemistry. Digital task navigators, written scaffolds that support students in solving tasks in organic chemistry, were developed, used, and evaluated for this study. A paper task navigator was further developed into a digital task navigator, which included links to explanations of special terms that were unknown to the students. The students could use the links to find these explanations if they needed them. Four newly designed digital task navigators were evaluated using questionnaires. The students rated this newly developed digital scaffold quite highly. Students who used the links to the explanations felt that these were also helpful. The results of the students’ ratings can be used to design additional digital task navigators for other topics as well as to develop this scaffold further.</p>","PeriodicalId":43,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Education","volume":"100 10","pages":"3818–3824"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Chemical Education","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00518","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Scaffolds can be seen as a suitable tool to support students’ learning chemistry. Digital task navigators, written scaffolds that support students in solving tasks in organic chemistry, were developed, used, and evaluated for this study. A paper task navigator was further developed into a digital task navigator, which included links to explanations of special terms that were unknown to the students. The students could use the links to find these explanations if they needed them. Four newly designed digital task navigators were evaluated using questionnaires. The students rated this newly developed digital scaffold quite highly. Students who used the links to the explanations felt that these were also helpful. The results of the students’ ratings can be used to design additional digital task navigators for other topics as well as to develop this scaffold further.
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The Journal of Chemical Education is the official journal of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society, co-published with the American Chemical Society Publications Division. Launched in 1924, the Journal of Chemical Education is the world’s premier chemical education journal. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed articles and related information as a resource to those in the field of chemical education and to those institutions that serve them. JCE typically addresses chemical content, activities, laboratory experiments, instructional methods, and pedagogies. The Journal serves as a means of communication among people across the world who are interested in the teaching and learning of chemistry. This includes instructors of chemistry from middle school through graduate school, professional staff who support these teaching activities, as well as some scientists in commerce, industry, and government.