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Abstract
The chemistry chief examiner of the West African Examination Council has complaint a lot about the weak performance of students on organic chemistry, including functional group detection. The study, therefore, investigated whether senior high school teachers who teach chemical concepts to students also demonstrated conceptual difficulties on functional group detection under organic qualitative analysis. The study adopted convergent mixed methods procedures to collect both quantitative and qualitative data from 47 chemistry teachers. The 47 teachers were sampled through multistage sampling procedures to respond to the Organic Qualitative Analysis Diagnostic Test for Teachers. The quantitative data was analyzed using means, standard deviations, and percentages to reflect no scientific understanding, partial scientific understanding, and scientific understanding of functional group detection. The qualitative data was open-coded and constantly compared to established teachers’ alternative conceptions and factual difficulties on functional group detection.
Highlights
Performance of students on organic chemistry, including curriculum
The results show that 27.7% of the teachers at a mean of 1.47 (SD=0.718) demonstrated a partial scientific understanding of the concept
Item β14C, the results show that none of the teachers at factual difficulties relating to alkenes and alkynes a mean of 0.72 (SD=0.971) demonstrated a partial undergoing an addition reaction
Summary
To provide the answers on whether chemistry teachers teaching functional groups through qualitative analysis do demonstrate conceptual difficulties, we first. V. Data Collection Procedure investigated their levels of conceptual understanding. Data Collection Procedure investigated their levels of conceptual understanding This was important as we needed to appreciate whether. During the of functional group detection and to be able to administration of OQADTT, a brief discussion on the investigate their conceptual difficulties. The briefing helped the partial scientific understanding on functional group research a lot as teachers appreciated the need to detection. This is because the mean scientific participate. Researchers understanding of teachers on all items was 1.00 The selected schools and teachers who had not covered enough were exempted from the research
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