Additions and corrections, RSC Adv.

Additions and corrections

Learning goals and conceptual difficulties in cell metabolism-An explorative study of university lecturers’ views

Mari Stadig Degerman and Lena A. E. Tibell

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., DOI: 10.1039/C2RP20035J. Amendment published 11^th September 2012.

The authors were notified that the section “However, some of the most thoroughly investigated and documented sources of students’ difficulties relate to energy, ATP formation, energy transformations and thermodynamic concepts (Waheed and Lucas, 1992). Galley (2004) claims these difficulties are associated with the coupling between hydrolysis of ATP to ADP and energy metabolism, i.e., how energy released in the exothermic breakage of bonds between phosphate-groups in ATP is used to drive other metabolic reactions and processes." can be misunderstood as arguing that bond breaking is exothermic. We want to make clear that our intention instead is to reinforce the conclusions in the 2004 paper by Galley by again pinpointing that a very common misunderstanding among students is that bond breaking in ATP is exothermic.

The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.

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