Tamara Rončević, PhD

Assistant Professor

Chair of Chemistry Teaching Methodology

CONTACT

University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences

Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection

Office: 17/V

Adress: Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3

21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Tel:+ 381 21 485 2735

e-mail: tamara.hrin@dh.uns.ac.rs

SCOPUS Author ID: 56461307400

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7141-1745

EDUCATION

  • 2015. PhD in Teaching Methods, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2011. MSc in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2010. BSc in Chemistry Teaching, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia

SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • 2017: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2015-2017. Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2015. Research Assistant, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2012-2015. Junior  Researcher, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

TEACHING

  • The introduction into teacher’s activity
  • Methods of teaching chemistry II
  • School practice I.

RESEARCH FIELDS

  • Systemic approach to teaching and learning chemistry
  • Illustrative methods in teaching chemistry
  • Cognitive complexity
  • Triplet model of knowledge representation.

SELECTED PROJECTS

  • The quality of education system in Serbia from European perspective, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2011-2019)
  • Infrastructure for electronic supported learning in Serbia, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2011-2019).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Hrin, T., Milenković, D., Segedinac, M. (2018): Diagnosing the quality of high school students’ and pre-service chemistry teachers’ cognitive structures in organic chemistry by using students’ generated systemic synthesis questions. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 19: 305-318.
  2. Hrin, T., Milenković, D., Segedinac, M., Horvat, S. (2018): Systems thinking in chemistry classroom: The influence of systemic synthesis questions on its development and assessment. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 23: 175-187.
  3. Segedinac, M., Horvat, S., Rodić, D., Rončević, T., Savić, G. (2018): Using knowledge space theory to compare expected and real knowledge spaces in learning stoichiometry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 19: 670-680.
  4. Hrin, T., Fahmy, A. F. M., Segedinac, M., Milenković, D. (2016): Systemic synthesis questions [SSynQs] as tools to help students to build their cognitive structures in a systemic manner. Research in Science Education. 46: 525-546.
  5. Milenković, D., Segedinac, M., Hrin, T. (2014): Increasing high school students’ performance and reducing cognitive load through an instructional strategy based on the interaction of multiple levels of knowledge representation. Journal of Chemical Education. 91: 1409–1416.

additional information

  • Annual Award of the Serbian chemical society for outstanding success during the study (2011)
  • Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia for PhD students (2012-2015)
  • Reviewer in international journals (Chemistry Education Research and Practice: from 2017, Journal of Baltic Science Education: from 2018)
  • Member of the Serbian society of subject didacticians and the Serbian chemical society
  • One of the authors of seminar for chemistry teachers entitled “Contemporary forms of evaluation in chemistry teaching” (Institute for the Advancement of Education of the Republic of Serbia, 2018/2019).