"This dissertation explores students' perceptions of their chemistry and biology courses through the lens of two crosscutting concepts, energy and the relationship between structure, properties, and function. Energy underlies all scientific phenomena. Structure-property and structure-function relationships have long been considered important explanatory concepts in the disciplines of chemistry and biology, respectively. As such, these crosscutting concepts provide an interesting context in which to investigate student connections and misconnections across disciplines."--from abstract.
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