The Chemical Structure Of Academic Abilities Preliminary Study

"Ability" has been in spate in competence education recently, which makes people feel confused. Especially in the field of chemistry education, how to construct the structure of subject ability has been a problem to solve for many years. Relative research is limited to how to train individual ability. Based on these, fostering innovative ability and practical ability, the core of competence education, requires us to rethink key elements of chemistry ability and its structure.On the basis of existing researches and the theories of pedagogies and psychologies, we present 19 kinds of key elements abilities. Through the approach of investigative questionnaire and ability examination, considering both teachers' teaching practice in senior high school and students' need in analyzing and resolving problem, taking the method of fixing the quality and quantity, we make a demonstration research. At last, we draw a conclusion that the 19 manifestations of chemistry ability can be reduced to three levels: the basal level, called repeating thinking, includes distinguishing and judging the chemical fact and relations of quantity in chemical reaction, comparing and summarizing the chemistry fundamental knowledge; innovative thinking level includes illogical thinking and logical thinking. Illogical thinking mainly contains intuition, association and space imagination of micro-particle. Logical thinking mainly contains flexibly analyzing and resolving comprehensive problem by using chemistry fundamental knowledge. Experimental ability, the top level of the structure, laying ideation as its foundation, embodies principal character of chemistry teaching. It contains selecting experimental method, designing experimental plan, evaluating experiment, studying and dealing with chemical fact, material and data, finding out regulations, expressing experiment and its result, finally settling the problem. It also contains diverging thinking. The three levels constitute a pyramid-pattern structure of chemistry ability.