Underwood, Sonia Graduate Faculty
- Affiliated Member, Institute of Environment , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
Overview
overview
- Sonia Underwood joined FIU in January 2016 after working as a Research Associate at Michigan State University in the area of chemistry education research. Prior to that, she received her PhD in Chemistry focused on chemistry education from Clemson University. Underwood's research area is focused on implementing and assessing curriculum transformation efforts using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Publications
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2025Identity Development in Chemistry: The Social Functionality and Moral Significance of Being (Considered) a "Real" Chemist. JACS Au. 5:4408-4426.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.5c00769 Web of Science: 001564360500001
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2024Applying Chemistry Core Ideas to the Real-World: Implementing Student Projects to Help See the Bigger Picture. Journal of Chemical Education. 101:4643-4650.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00995 Web of Science: 001340301100001
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2024A Qualitative Investigation of Higher Education Chemistry Students' Perceptions of What Scientists Do. Journal of Chemical Education. 101:4071-4082.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00334 Web of Science: 001306496900001
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2024Beyond active learning: Using 3-Dimensional learning to create scientifically authentic, student-centered classrooms. PLoS ONE. 19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295887 Web of Science: 001237119600025
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2023Components Critical to Successful Adoption and Adaptation of CLUE, a Transformed General Chemistry Curriculum. Journal of Chemical Education. 100:3374-3385.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00190 Web of Science: 001065003900001
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2022"Big Ideas" of Introductory Chemistry and Biology Courses and the Connections between Them. CBE Life Sciences Education. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.21-10-0301 Web of Science: 000821483900007
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2022Impact of Ocean Acidification on Shelled Organisms: SupportingIntegration of Chemistry and Biology Knowledge throughMultidisciplinary Activities. Journal of Chemical Education. 99:2182-2189.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00981 Web of Science: 000801079700044
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2021Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR): An Approach to Propagate a Transformed General Chemistry Curriculum across Multiple Institutions. Journal of Chemical Education. 98:3643-3655.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00723 Web of Science: 000731641200005
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2021Creating and testing an activity with interdisciplinary connections: entropy to osmosis. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 22:683-696.Full Text via DOI: 10.1039/d0rp00353k Web of Science: 000640247500001
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2021Connecting Ideas across Courses: Relating Energy, Bonds & How ATP Hydrolysis Powers a Molecular Motor. American Biology Teacher. 83:303-310.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/abt.2021.83.5.303 Web of Science: 000659322700005
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2021Investigating the impact of three-dimensional learning interventions on student understanding of structure-property relationships. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 22:247-262.Full Text via DOI: 10.1039/d0rp00216j Web of Science: 000637493300003
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2021Students' use of chemistry core ideas to explain the structure and stability ofDNA. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 49:55-68.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bmb.21391 Web of Science: 000568073700001
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2020Characterizing college science instruction: The Three-Dimensional Learning Observation Protocol. PLoS ONE. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234640 Web of Science: 000542957200021
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2019Reasoning about Reactions in Organic Chemistry: Starting It in General Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education. 96:213-226.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00784 Web of Science: 000478008600004
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2019Predictions and constructing explanations: an investigation into introductory chemistry students' understanding of structure-property relationships. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 20:316-328.Full Text via DOI: 10.1039/c8rp00195b Web of Science: 000482260100024
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2018Evaluating the extent of a large-scale transformation in gateway science courses. Science Advances. 4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau0554 Web of Science: 000449221200052
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2018Developing an Analytical Framework to Characterize Student Reasoning about Complex Processes. CBE Life Sciences Education. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.17-10-0225 Web of Science: 000443850200012
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2018Connecting Structure-Property and Structure-Function Relationships across the Disciplines of Chemistry and Biology: Exploring Student Perceptions. CBE Life Sciences Education. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.18-01-0004 Web of Science: 000437038800023
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2018Energy Connections and Misconnections across Chemistry and Biology. CBE Life Sciences Education. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.17-08-0169 Web of Science: 000429925100009
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2018Adapting Assessment Tasks To Support Three-Dimensional Learning. Journal of Chemical Education. 95:207-217.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00645 Web of Science: 000426012300005
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2017Core Ideas and Topics: Building Up or Drilling Down?. Journal of Chemical Education. 94:541-548.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00900 Web of Science: 000401787400002
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2016Investigating Students' Reasoning about Acid-Base Reactions. Journal of Chemical Education. 93:1703-1712.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00417 Web of Science: 000385903100004
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2016Characterizing College Science Assessments: The Three-Dimensional Learning Assessment Protocol. PLoS ONE. 11.Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162333 Web of Science: 000383255600039
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2016When 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.Full Text via DOI: 10.1039/C5RP00217F Web of Science: 000373511500011
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2015Are Noncovalent Interactions an Achilles Heel in Chemistry Education? A Comparison of Instructional Approaches. Journal of Chemical Education. 92:1979-1987.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00619 Web of Science: 000366961800005
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2015Answering 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.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.21183 Web of Science: 000365409300006
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2015Student Understanding of Intermolecular Forces: A Multimodal Study. Journal of Chemical Education. 92:1288-1298.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00169 Web of Science: 000360030800004
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2013An investigation of college chemistry students' understanding of structure-property relationships. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 50:699-721.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/tea.21093 Web of Science: 000322006100005
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2012Development and Assessment of a Molecular Structure and Properties Learning Progression. Journal of Chemical Education. 89:1351-1357.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/ed300083a Web of Science: 000309847200003
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2012Development 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.Full Text via DOI: 10.1039/c2rp00010e Web of Science: 000306121100006
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2010Lost in Lewis Structures: An Investigation of Student Difficulties in Developing Representational Competence. Journal of Chemical Education. 87:869-874.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/ed900004y Web of Science: 000279927300029
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1989USE OF ISRADIPINE IN HYPERTENSION FOLLOWING CORONARY-ARTERY BYPASS-SURGERY. American Journal of Medicine. 86:81-87.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(89)90197-6 Web of Science: A1989U533200017
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Conference
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2019Assessing students' ability to create interdisciplinary connections: entropy to osmosis. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000478860503709
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2019Challenges and lessons learned during the initial propagation of a curriculum. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000478860503780
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2019Characterizing instruction in undergraduate science courses: The three-dimensional learning observational protocol. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000478860503768
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2019Investigating the impact of three-dimensional learning on student understanding. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000478860503708
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2018Development of assessments for student understanding of core chemistry ideas in introductory biology. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537703324
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2018Improving student understanding of intermolecular forces with transformed curricula materials. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537703933
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2018Investigating how undergraduate general chemistry students interpret and explain everyday phenomena. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537704027
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2018Investigating the impact of an alternative general chemistry curriculum among diverse classroom environments. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537705201
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2018Investigating the impact of using transformed curriculum materials on structure-property relationships in a traditional general chemistry course. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537705198
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2017Considering the relationship between structure, properties, and function: How students connect these ideas across their introductory chemistry and biology courses. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000430568503796
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2017Developing assessments to characterize student reasoning about interdisciplinary phenomena. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000430568505694
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2017Making predictions and constructing explanations: An investigation into introductory chemistry students' understanding of structure-property relationships. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000430568505693
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2016Connections and conflicts students perceive between chemistry and molecular biology. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000431903802728
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2016From Bronsted to Lewis: A longitudinal study of student-constructed acid-base explanations. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000431903804762
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2016Investigation into how students make connections that cross the disciplinary boundaries of chemistry, biology, and physics. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000431903803088
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2016Developing an empirically grounded framework to assess interdisciplinarity of student explanations of everyday phenomena. 2013 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE. 220-223.Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/perc.2016.pr.050 Web of Science: 000393035800053
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2014Designing a rubric to characterize assessments. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000349165103223
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2014How do students learn to predict structure property relationships?. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000348455202090
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2014Investigating the role of assessment in students' understanding of intermolecular forces. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000348455203505
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2014Using technology to collect and analyze data for research. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000348455203458
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2014A short history of the use of technology to model and analyze student data for teaching and research. ACS Symposium Series. 219-239.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/bk-2014-1166.ch012
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2013Longitudinal assessment of students' understanding of intermolecular forces for a novel general chemistry curriculum: Chemistry, Life, the Universe, and Everything (CLUE). ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000329618401491
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2013beSocratic and the classroom: The many uses of a novel assessment tool in the lecture setting. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000329618401781
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2012Disconnect in students' understanding of intermolecular forces. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000324475101726
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2012Spectrum of perceptions: Students' interpretations of structure-property relationships. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000324475101907
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2010Lewis structures: A new approach for instruction. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000208189301367
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1993ISRADIPINE AND THE CORONARY CIRCULATION. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. 38-42.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1993.tb03823.x Web of Science: A1993KX11000007
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Letter
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1986OBSTRUCTION OF TRACHEOSTOMY BY THROMBUS. Critical Care Medicine. 834-834.Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/00003246-198609000-00018 Web of Science: A1986E048100018
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Other Scholarly Work
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2023Driving Change by Inspiring Others: Introducing the Virtual Issue for Melanie M. Cooper Festschrift. Journal of Chemical Education. 2481-2482.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00573 Web of Science: 001029142100001
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2017Comment on "Analyzing the Role of Science Practices in ACS Exam Items". Journal of Chemical Education. 673-674.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00170 Web of Science: 000404092400002
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2015Challenge faculty to transform STEM learning. Science. 281-282.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.aab0933 Web of Science: 000362838700023
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Preprint
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Review
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2020Using Memes in the Classroom as a Final Exam Review Activity. Journal of Chemical Education. 1381-1386.Full Text via DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00068 Web of Science: 000535226300022
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Research
principal investigator on
- Collaborative Research: Extending the Coherent Gateway to STEM Teaching and Learning awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2023
- Collaborative Research: Creating assessments for student understanding of core chemistry ideas in introductory biology awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2020
co-principal investigator on
subproject principal investigator on
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowships awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2026
Contact
full name
- Sonia Underwood
