Hi Chemistry Education Community,
Have you read a chemistry education research paper in the last year that changed how you think about research or practice? Such a paper might add nuance to how you think about the assets students bring to the classroom, or suggest large-scale policy changes that are needed to cultivate more equitable chemistry learning spaces. If you can think of a landmark paper in our field that was published in the last two years, please suggest it for inclusion in the New and Noteworthy Symposium!
This symposium, which is sponsored by the Chemical Education Research Committee (CERC) of the Division of Chemical Education, is meant to highlight the best new scholarship in our field. These nominations must be of papers published in the previous two years (2024 - 2025) in any journal that publishes chemistry education research (https://bit.ly/CERC-guidelines-RiCE). Authors of papers selected for inclusion in this symposium will be invited to present at the 2026 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To nominate a paper for the New and Noteworthy Symposium, please provide a PDF copy of a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal and a brief statement of why the paper is new and noteworthy based upon the quality and impact of the theoretical/conceptual framework, research question or problem, design of the study, analysis and overall contribution to the field. Only one paper per first author will be accepted for nomination. Self-nominations are welcome. Submissions of two or more articles will not be considered. Send the pdf file of the paper and nomination statement to:
Elizabeth Day
The University of Texas at El Paso
elday@utep.edu
Deadline for the receipt of nominations midnight on January 31, 2026.
Review of nominated papers will be completed and announced in early spring before the deadline for submission of an abstract to the BCCE. All authors invited to present a paper at the New and Noteworthy Symposium must be registered for the BCCE in order to participate.