Teaching Energy without Dogma.

This study investigates the difficulties first year chemistry students have with learning the concept of energy. Students have difficulty understanding heat and work as path functions and energy as a state function. Textbooks analysis, the evaluation of current practice and teaching experiments, and epistemological analysis were conducted during the study, and all are reported on. (YDS) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Thurede'f, July 6, 2000 Page, 1 Teaching Energy without Dogma e-mail: mailto:kaper @chem.uva.nl Address: Nieuwe Achtergracht 129 NL 1018 WV Amsterdam Teaching Energy without Dogma Wolter H. Kaper Martin Goedhart Research group on Chemical education University of Amsterdam PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY