Analogies: Those Little Tricks That Help Students to Understand Basic Concepts in Chemical Engineering
Abstract
This paper addresses the difficulty of transferring conceptual knowledge of chemical processes to students, and how it can be aided through the use of analogies. Common everyday observations and objects are used to illustrate how a physical or chemical change takes place. It was found that this approach greatly assisted the understanding of students, especially in South Africa where severe underpreparedness is present as a result of poor secondary schooling, a post-Apartheid issue.