“…With such a loose foundation, past studies asserted that students are prone to hold alternative notions and misconceptions related to basic concepts that manifest more difficulties in learning the subsequent topics that integrate the knowledge in understanding more complex concepts or solving problems (Elham & Dilmaghani, 2019;Salame & Nikolic, 2021;Ting, 2016). In the context of preparation and qualitative analysis of salts, it is evident that students not only struggle to learn the basics topics, but they also found to have misconceptions about the reaction of acids and bases (Damanhuri et al, 2016), ionic and covalent substances (Stojanovska et al, 2017), the concept of salts' solubility (Eisen et al, 2014;Izzati & Rochmah, 2020;Salame & Nikolic, 2021) and salts hydrolysis (Prianti et al, 2020;Shidiq et al, 2019) to name a few.…”