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Bara, Jason Edward; McLemore, John Patrick – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
There appears to be no published knowledge regarding how humans use unit conversions. Until very recently, acquiring such data would be essentially impossible, but mobile devices have now enabled many questions to be answered through passive "crowdsourcing" of big data sets. This work details the analysis of five years of anonymous user…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Computation
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Tan, Aik-Ling; Lee, Peter Peng Foo; Cheah, Yin Hong – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
This study examines the verbal interactions among a group of pre-service teachers as they engaged in scientific discussions in a medicinal chemistry course. These discussions were part of the course that encompassed an explicit instruction of scientific argumentation structures as well as an applied component, whereby the pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Peer Relationship
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Overton, Tina L.; Bradley, John S. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2010
In this paper we describe the development and evaluation of two activities for delivery in first year B.Sc. and M.Chem. degree courses, in which we introduced an international context representing either a linguistic or a cultural modification to the previously developed case studies. The case studies focus on an industrial and an environmental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Chemistry, Foreign Countries
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Wotiz, John H. – Chemical and Engineering News, 1974
The state of higher education in chemistry in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong is assessed. The assessment includes the number of universities in each country, student enrollment, facilities available, degree offered and an evaluation of the quality of education. (GS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Programs, College Science, Evaluation
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Wotiz, John H. – Chemical and Engineering News, 1974
The state of higher chemical education in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Burma is assessed. The assessment includes the number of universities in each country, student enrollment, facilities available, degree offered and an evaluation of the quality of education. (GS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Programs, College Science, Evaluation
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Wotiz, John H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1976
Briefly describes chemistry programs in Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. (MLH)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Educational Programs, Foreign Countries
BAEZ, ALBERT V. – 1967
A PAPER PRESENTED TO THE SECTION ON EDUCATION (Q) OF THE 1967 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE ANNUAL CONVENTION, THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DIVISION OF SCIENCE TEACHING (DST) OF UNESCO. INCLUDED ARE DISCUSSIONS OF (1) THE OVERALL PROGRAM BUDGET, (2) AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DST AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, College Science, Curriculum
Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Politics of Education, Economic Factors