Melanie M. Cooper, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
1987-2012 Chemistry Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States 
 2013- Chemistry Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 
Area:
Chemistry Education
Website:
http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/cooper/index.html

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2024 Shiroda M, Franovic CG, de Lima J, Noyes K, Babi D, Beltran-Flores E, Kesh J, McKay RL, Persson-Gordon E, Cooper MM, Long TM, Schwarz CV, Stoltzfus JR. Examining and Supporting Mechanistic Explanations Across Chemistry and Biology Courses. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 23: ar38. PMID 39172965 DOI: 10.1187/cbe.23-08-0157  0.399
2024 Cooper MM, Caballero MD, Carmel JH, Duffy EM, Ebert-May D, Fata-Hartley CL, Herrington DG, Laverty JT, Nelson PC, Posey LA, Stoltzfus JR, Stowe RL, Sweeder RD, Tessmer S, Underwood SM. Beyond active learning: Using 3-Dimensional learning to create scientifically authentic, student-centered classrooms. Plos One. 19: e0295887. PMID 38820334 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295887  0.828
2022 Roche Allred ZD, Santiago Caobi L, Pardinas B, Echarri-Gonzalez A, Kohn KP, Kararo AT, Cooper MM, Underwood SM. "Big Ideas" of Introductory Chemistry and Biology Courses and the Connections between Them. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 21: ar35. PMID 35580004 DOI: 10.1187/cbe.21-10-0301  0.741
2020 Bain K, Bender L, Bergeron P, Caballero MD, Carmel JH, Duffy EM, Ebert-May D, Fata-Hartley CL, Herrington DG, Laverty JT, Matz RL, Nelson PC, Posey LA, Stoltzfus JR, Stowe RL, ... ... Cooper MM, et al. Characterizing college science instruction: The Three-Dimensional Learning Observation Protocol. Plos One. 15: e0234640. PMID 32544166 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0234640  0.807
2020 Duffy EM, Cooper MM. Assessing TA buy-in to expectations and alignment of actual teaching practices in a transformed general chemistry laboratory course Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 21: 189-208. DOI: 10.1039/C9Rp00088G  0.498
2020 Cooper MM. The Crosscutting Concepts: Critical Component or “Third Wheel” of Three-Dimensional Learning? Journal of Chemical Education. 97: 903-909. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B01134  0.448
2020 Stephenson NS, Duffy EM, Day EL, Padilla K, Herrington DG, Cooper MM, Carmel JH. Development and Validation of Scientific Practices Assessment Tasks for the General Chemistry Laboratory Journal of Chemical Education. 97: 884-893. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00897  0.717
2020 Cooper MM, Klymkowsky MW. Comment on “Should Organic Chemistry Be Taught as Science?” Journal of Chemical Education. 97: 1213-1214. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00851  0.318
2020 Crandell OM, Lockhart MA, Cooper MM. Arrows on the Page Are Not a Good Gauge: Evidence for the Importance of Causal Mechanistic Explanations about Nucleophilic Substitution in Organic Chemistry Journal of Chemical Education. 97: 313-327. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00815  0.583
2019 Kararo AT, Colvin RA, Cooper MM, Underwood SM. Predictions and constructing explanations: an investigation into introductory chemistry students’ understanding of structure–property relationships Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 20: 316-328. DOI: 10.1039/C8Rp00195B  0.75
2019 Stowe RL, Cooper MM. Arguing from Spectroscopic Evidence Journal of Chemical Education. 96: 2072-2085. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00550  0.812
2019 Noyes K, Cooper MM. Investigating Student Understanding of London Dispersion Forces: A Longitudinal Study Journal of Chemical Education. 96: 1821-1832. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00455  0.572
2019 Cooper MM, Stowe RL, Crandell OM, Klymkowsky MW. Organic Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything (OCLUE): A Transformed Organic Chemistry Curriculum Journal of Chemical Education. 96: 1858-1872. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00401  0.791
2019 Stowe RL, Herrington DG, McKay RL, Cooper MM. The Impact of Core-Idea Centered Instruction on High School Students’ Understanding of Structure–Property Relationships Journal of Chemical Education. 96: 1327-1340. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00111  0.816
2019 Stowe RL, Herrington DG, McKay RL, Cooper MM. Adapting a Core-Idea Centered Undergraduate General Chemistry Curriculum for Use in High School Journal of Chemical Education. 96: 1318-1326. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.9B00071  0.765
2019 Carmel JH, Herrington DG, Posey LA, Ward JS, Pollock AM, Cooper MM. Helping Students to “Do Science”: Characterizing Scientific Practices in General Chemistry Laboratory Curricula Journal of Chemical Education. 96: 423-434. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.8B00912  0.791
2019 Stowe RL, Cooper MM. Assessment in Chemistry Education Israel Journal of Chemistry. 59: 598-607. DOI: 10.1002/Ijch.201900024  0.711
2018 Matz RL, Fata-Hartley CL, Posey LA, Laverty JT, Underwood SM, Carmel JH, Herrington DG, Stowe RL, Caballero MD, Ebert-May D, Cooper MM. Evaluating the extent of a large-scale transformation in gateway science courses. Science Advances. 4: eaau0554. PMID 30397646 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aau0554  0.798
2018 Cooper MM, Stowe RL. Chemistry Education Research-From Personal Empiricism to Evidence, Theory, and Informed Practice. Chemical Reviews. PMID 29893111 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Chemrev.8B00020  0.805
2018 Kohn KP, Underwood SM, Cooper MM. Connecting Structure-Property and Structure-Function Relationships across the Disciplines of Chemistry and Biology: Exploring Student Perceptions. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 17: ar33. PMID 29786475 DOI: 10.1187/Cbe.18-01-0004  0.741
2018 Kohn KP, Underwood SM, Cooper MM. Energy Connections and Misconnections across Chemistry and Biology. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 17. PMID 29351907 DOI: 10.1187/Cbe.17-08-0169  0.731
2018 Crandell OM, Kouyoumdjian H, Underwood SM, Cooper MM. Reasoning about Reactions in Organic Chemistry: Starting It in General Chemistry Journal of Chemical Education. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.8B00784  0.84
2017 Cooper MM, Stieff M, DeSutter D. Sketching the Invisible to Predict the Visible: From Drawing to Modeling in Chemistry. Topics in Cognitive Science. PMID 28635122 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12285  0.519
2017 Underwood SM, Posey LA, Herrington DG, Carmel JH, Cooper MM. Adapting Assessment Tasks To Support Three-Dimensional Learning Journal of Chemical Education. 95: 207-217. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.7B00645  0.833
2017 Stowe RL, Cooper MM. Practicing What We Preach: Assessing “Critical Thinking” in Organic Chemistry Journal of Chemical Education. 94: 1852-1859. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.7B00335  0.803
2017 Laverty JT, Underwood SM, Matz RL, Posey LA, Carmel JH, Caballero MD, Fata-Hartley CL, Ebert-May D, Jardeleza SE, Cooper MM. Comment on “Analyzing the Role of Science Practices in ACS Exam Items” Journal of Chemical Education. 94: 673-674. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.7B00170  0.754
2017 Cooper MM, Posey LA, Underwood SM. Core Ideas and Topics: Building Up or Drilling Down? Journal of Chemical Education. 94: 541-548. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.6B00900  0.69
2017 Carmel JH, Ward JS, Cooper MM. A Glowing Recommendation: A Project-Based Cooperative Laboratory Activity To Promote Use of the Scientific and Engineering Practices Journal of Chemical Education. 94: 626-631. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.6B00628  0.712
2016 Klymkowsky MW, Rentsch JD, Begovic E, Cooper MM. The Design and Transformation of Biofundamentals: A Nonsurvey Introductory Evolutionary and Molecular Biology Course. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 15. PMID 27909020 DOI: 10.1187/Cbe.16-03-0142  0.599
2016 Laverty JT, Underwood SM, Matz RL, Posey LA, Carmel JH, Caballero MD, Fata-Hartley CL, Ebert-May D, Jardeleza SE, Cooper MM. Characterizing College Science Assessments: The Three-Dimensional Learning Assessment Protocol. Plos One. 11: e0162333. PMID 27606671 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0162333  0.814
2016 Underwood SM, Reyes-Gastelum D, Cooper MM. When do students recognize relationships between molecular structure and properties? A longitudinal comparison of the impact of traditional and transformed curricula Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 17: 365-380. DOI: 10.1039/C5Rp00217F  0.76
2016 Cooper MM, Kouyoumdjian H, Underwood SM. Investigating Students' Reasoning about Acid-Base Reactions Journal of Chemical Education. 93: 1703-1712. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.6B00417  0.838
2016 Becker N, Noyes K, Cooper M. Characterizing Students' Mechanistic Reasoning about London Dispersion Forces Journal of Chemical Education. 93: 1713-1724. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.6B00298  0.598
2016 Cooper MM. It Is Time to Say What We Mean Journal of Chemical Education. 93: 799-800. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.6B00227  0.499
2015 Cooper MM, Caballero MD, Ebert-May D, Fata-Hartley CL, Jardeleza SE, Krajcik JS, Laverty JT, Matz RL, Posey LA, Underwood SM. Challenge faculty to transform STEM learning. Science (New York, N.Y.). 350: 281-2. PMID 26472897 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aab0933  0.831
2015 Orgill M, Cooper MM. Teaching and learning about the interface between chemistry and biology Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 16: 711-713. DOI: 10.1039/C5Rp90011E  0.412
2015 Cooper MM. What Can the Learning Sciences Tell Us about Learning Chemistry? Acs Symposium Series. 1208: 93-105. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2015-1208.ch006  0.332
2015 Williams LC, Underwood SM, Klymkowsky MW, Cooper MM. Are Noncovalent Interactions an Achilles Heel in Chemistry Education? A Comparison of Instructional Approaches Journal of Chemical Education. 92: 1979-1987. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.5B00619  0.75
2015 Cooper MM. Why Ask Why? Journal of Chemical Education. 92: 1273-1279. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.5B00203  0.636
2015 Cooper MM, Williams LC, Underwood SM. Student Understanding of Intermolecular Forces: A Multimodal Study Journal of Chemical Education. 92: 1288-1298. DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jchemed.5B00169  0.748
2015 Underwood SM, Reyes-Gastelum D, Cooper MM. Answering the Questions of Whether and When Learning Occurs: Using Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Investigate the Ways in Which College Chemistry Students' Ideas About Structure-Property Relationships Evolve Science Education. 99: 1055-1072. DOI: 10.1002/Sce.21183  0.759
2014 Cooper MM. Evidence-based reform of teaching and learning. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 406: 1-4. PMID 24220758 DOI: 10.1007/S00216-013-7438-4  0.6
2014 Redish EF, Bauer C, Carleton KL, Cooke TJ, Cooper M, Crouch CH, Dreyfus BW, Geller BD, Giannini J, Gouvea JS, Klymkowsky MW, Losert W, Moore K, Presson J, Sawtelle V, et al. NEXUS/Physics: An interdisciplinary repurposing of physics for biologists American Journal of Physics. 82. DOI: 10.1119/1.4870386  0.51
2014 Bryfczynski SP, Brown R, Hester J, Herrmann A, Koch DL, Cooper MM, Grove NP. URespond: Ipad as interactive, personal response system Journal of Chemical Education. 91: 357-363. DOI: 10.1021/Ed4006453  0.824
2014 Cooper MM, Underwood SM, Bryfczynski SP, Klymkowsky MW. A short history of the use of technology to model and analyze student data for teaching and research Acs Symposium Series. 1166: 219-239. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2014-1166.ch012  0.807
2014 Becker NM, Cooper MM. College chemistry students' understanding of potential energy in the context of atomic-molecular interactions Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 51: 789-808. DOI: 10.1002/Tea.21159  0.431
2013 Cooper MM, Klymkowsky MW. The trouble with chemical energy: why understanding bond energies requires an interdisciplinary systems approach. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 12: 306-12. PMID 23737636 DOI: 10.1187/Cbe.12-10-0170  0.399
2013 Cooper MM. The new MCAT: An incentive for reform or a lost opportunity? Journal of Chemical Education. 90: 820-822. DOI: 10.1021/Ed400351V  0.611
2013 Cooper MM. Chemistry and the next generation science standards Journal of Chemical Education. 90: 679-680. DOI: 10.1021/Ed400284C  0.56
2013 Cooper M, Klymkowsky M. Chemistry, life, the universe, and everything: A new approach to general chemistry, and a model for curriculum reform Journal of Chemical Education. 90: 1116-1122. DOI: 10.1021/Ed300456Y  0.602
2013 Cooper MM, Sandi-Urena S. Twenty years of learning in the cooperative general chemistry laboratory Acs Symposium Series. 1145: 47-64. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2013-1145.ch004  0.372
2013 Cooper MM, Corley LM, Underwood SM. An investigation of college chemistry students' understanding of structure-property relationships Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 50: 699-721. DOI: 10.1002/Tea.21093  0.768
2012 Henson K, Cooper MM, Klymkowsky MW. Turning randomness into meaning at the molecular level using Muller's morphs. Biology Open. 1: 405-10. PMID 23213431 DOI: 10.1242/Bio.2012031  0.426
2012 Trujillo C, Cooper MM, Klymkowsky MW. Using graph-based assessments within socratic tutorials to reveal and refine students' analytical thinking about molecular networks. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education : a Bimonthly Publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 40: 100-7. PMID 22419590 DOI: 10.1002/Bmb.20585  0.532
2012 Cooper MM, Underwood SM, Hilley CZ. Development and validation of the implicit information from Lewis structures instrument (IILSI): Do students connect structures with properties? Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 13: 195-200. DOI: 10.1039/C2Rp00010E  0.752
2012 Cooper MM, Underwood SM, Hilley CZ, Klymkowsky MW. Development and assessment of a molecular structure and properties learning progression Journal of Chemical Education. 89: 1351-1357. DOI: 10.1021/Ed300083A  0.758
2012 Cooper MM. Cherry picking: Why we must not let negativity dominance affect our interactions with students Journal of Chemical Education. 89: 423-424. DOI: 10.1021/Ed3000217  0.517
2012 Grove NP, Cooper MM, Cox EL. Does mechanistic thinking improve student success in organic chemistry? Journal of Chemical Education. 89: 850-853. DOI: 10.1021/Ed200394D  0.554
2012 Grove NP, Cooper MM, Rush KM. Decorating with arrows: Toward the development of representational competence in organic chemistry Journal of Chemical Education. 89: 844-849. DOI: 10.1021/Ed2003934  0.573
2012 Sandi-Urena S, Cooper M, Stevens R. Effect of cooperative problem-based lab instruction on metacognition and problem-solving skills Journal of Chemical Education. 89: 700-706. DOI: 10.1021/Ed1011844  0.569
2011 Sandi-Urena S, Cooper MM, Stevens RH. Enhancement of metacognition use and awareness by means of a collaborative intervention International Journal of Science Education. 33: 323-340. DOI: 10.1080/09500690903452922  0.43
2011 Sandi-Urena S, Cooper MM, Gatlin TA, Bhattacharyya G. Students' experience in a general chemistry cooperative problem based laboratory Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 12: 434-442. DOI: 10.1039/C1Rp90047A  0.628
2011 Sandi-Urena S, Cooper MM, Gatlin TA. Graduate teaching assistants' epistemological and metacognitive development Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 12: 92-100. DOI: 10.1039/C1Rp90012A  0.539
2010 Holme T, Bretz SL, Cooper M, Lewis J, Paek P, Pienta N, Stacy A, Stevens R, Towns M. Enhancing the role of assessment in curriculum reform in chemistry Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 11: 92-97. DOI: 10.1039/C005352J  0.758
2010 Cooper MM, Grove N, Underwood SM, Klymkowsky MW. Lost in lewis structures: An investigation of student difficulties in developing representational competence Journal of Chemical Education. 87: 869-874. DOI: 10.1021/Ed900004Y  0.78
2010 Cooper M. The Case for Reform of the Undergraduate General Chemistry Curriculum Journal of Chemical Education. 87: 231-232. DOI: 10.1021/Ed800096M  0.652
2009 Cooper MM, Grovea NP, Pargas R, Bryfczynski SP, Gatlin T. OrganicPad: An interactive freehand drawing application for drawing Lewis structures and the development of skills in organic chemistry Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 10: 296-301. DOI: 10.1039/B920835F  0.819
2009 Cooper MM, Sandi-Urena S. Design and Validation of an Instrument To Assess Metacognitive Skillfulness in Chemistry Problem Solving Journal of Chemical Education. 86: 240. DOI: 10.1021/Ed086P240  0.394
2008 Cox CT, Cooper MM, Pease R, Buchanan K, Hernandez-Cruz L, Stevens R, Picione J, Holme T. Advancements in curriculum and assessment by the use of IMMEX technology in the organic laboratory Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 9: 163-168. DOI: 10.1039/B806233C  0.376
2008 Cooper MM, Sandi-Urena S, Stevens R. Reliable multi method assessment of metacognition use in chemistry problem solving Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 9: 18-24. DOI: 10.1039/B801287N  0.492
2008 Cooper MM, Cox CT, Nammouz M, Case E, Stevens R. An Assessment of the Effect of Collaborative Groups on Students' Problem-Solving Strategies and Abilities Journal of Chemical Education. 85: 866. DOI: 10.1021/Ed085P866  0.785
2008 Cooper MM. Drawing meaningful conclusions from education experiments Acs Symposium Series. 976: 171-182. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2008-0976.ch011  0.403
2007 Cooper MM. Data-driven education research. Science (New York, N.Y.). 317: 1171. PMID 17761867 DOI: 10.1126/Science.317.5842.1171  0.433
2007 Cooper MM, Stevens RH, Cox CT, Nammouz M. Improving problem solving with simple interventions New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences. 64-68. DOI: 10.29311/Ndtps.V0I3.422  0.798
2006 Cox CT, Cooper MM. Derivatization of Fullerenes: An Organic Chemistry Laboratory Journal of Chemical Education. 83: 99. DOI: 10.1021/Ed083P99  0.326
2006 Cooper MM, Kerns TS. Changing the Laboratory: Effects of a Laboratory Course on Students' Attitudes and Perceptions Journal of Chemical Education. 83: 1356. DOI: 10.1021/Ed083P1356  0.585
2001 Cooper M, Elzerman AW, Lee CM. Teaching Chemistry in the New Century: Environmental Chemistry Journal of Chemical Education. 78: 1169. DOI: 10.1021/Ed078P1169  0.502
1996 Cooper MM, Lovell JM, Joule JA. Indole-β-nucleophilic substitution. Part 9 nitrogen nucleophiles. Syntheses of hydroxycryptolepine, cryptolepine, and quindoline Tetrahedron Letters. 37: 4283-4286. DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(96)00818-0  0.467
1995 Cooper MM. Cooperative Learning: An Approach for Large Enrollment Courses Journal of Chemical Education. 72: 162. DOI: 10.1021/Ed072P162  0.442
1994 Cooper MM. Cooperative Chemistry Laboratories Journal of Chemical Education. 71: 307. DOI: 10.1021/Ed071P307  0.55
1993 Cooper MM. Writing: An approach for large-enrollment chemistry courses Journal of Chemical Education. 70: 476. DOI: 10.1021/Ed070P476  0.509
1989 Cooper MM. A short laboratory-based course for junior high school students in a summer science program Journal of Chemical Education. 66: 763. DOI: 10.1021/Ed066P763  0.479
1983 Dalton L, Humphrey GL, Cooper MM, Joule JA. Indole β-nucleophilic substitution. Part 7. β-Halogenation of indoles. Attempted intramolecular β-nucleophilic substitution of α-arylindoles Journal of the Chemical Society-Perkin Transactions 1. 15: 2417-2422. DOI: 10.1039/P19830002417  0.466
1982 Beal MG, Ashcroft WR, Cooper MM, Joule JA. Indole β-nucleophilic substitution. Part 3. Synthesis of four isomeric pyrido[x′, y′:5,6]oxepino[3,2-b]indolones Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1. 435-439. DOI: 10.1039/P19820000435  0.484
1981 Cooper MM, Hignett GJ, Joule JA. Indole β-nucleophilic substitution. Part 2. Formation of a [2]benzoxepino[4,3-b]indole and a pyrido[4′,3′:5,6]oxepino[3,2-b] indole Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1. 3008-3011. DOI: 10.1039/P19810003008  0.473
1977 Cooper MM, Hignett GJ, Newton RF, Joule JA, Harris M, Hinchley JD. Nucleophilic substitutions at an indole β-position Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications. 432-434. DOI: 10.1039/C39770000432  0.474
1977 Cooper MM, Hignett GJ, Newton RF, Joule JA, Harris M, Hinchley JD. NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTIONS AT AN INDOLE β-POSITION Cheminform. 8. DOI: 10.1002/Chin.197746269  0.461
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