Should We Put Observations First?

• Mansoor Niaz ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Oriente

     Universidad de Oriente

     Venezuela

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 76, Nº 6 (June), 1999, págs. 734-734
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many general chemistry courses and textbooks do not emphasize conceptual understanding. I argue that by "putting observations first", teachers and textbooks would be overemphasizing experimental details, which has been criticized by modern philosophers of science. I conclude that the theoretical rationale of the experiment is more important than the experiment itself.