Physical and Digital Educational Escape Room for Teaching Chemical Bonding
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An escape room uses a game-based active learning approach to develop students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills in an immersive environment. An escape room was developed to provide an innovative method to reinforce concepts in chemical bonding for a first-year general chemistry course. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was unsuitable to implement the escape room in a physical setting, as students need to interact in close proximity. To circumvent this problem, a fully digital escape room was developed using Google Forms, as it is cost-effective, accessible, and easy to use. Students’ feedback indicates that both escape rooms reinforce and motivate learning.
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Reviewing educational literature on chemistry-specific EEAs outlines previous examples that serve as instruction to lab techniques, evaluation of student understanding, and complementary teaching of concepts.
“Reviewing educational literature that deals with chemistry-specific EEAs outlines previous examples that serve as (i) instruction to lab techniques, 15 -18 (ii) evaluation of student understanding, 19 -22 and (iii) complementary teaching of concepts. 23,24”
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Elford, D., Lancaster, S. J., & Jones, G. A. (2022) · Journal of Chemical Education · doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00428 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
- Authors
- Ang, J. W. J., Ng, Y. N. A., & Liew, R. S.
- Affiliations
- Nanyang Polytechnic (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Ang, Jayden Wei Jie
- Ng, Yin Ni Annie
- ORCID
- Ang, Jayden Wei Jie
- Venue
- Journal of Chemical Education
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2020-07-29
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2849-2856
- ISSN
- 0021-9584 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-1328
- OpenAlex
- W3046008815
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 20.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Chemical Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Various Chemistry Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Chemistry Education and Research
- Keywords
- escape rooms, chemical bonding, game-based learning, active learning, digital escape rooms, Google Forms, general chemistry education, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, COVID-19 pandemic, student motivation
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