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Direct linkTalanquer, Vincente – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Several concept inventories have been developed to elicit students' alternative conceptions in chemistry. It is suggested that heuristic reasoning may bias students' answers in these types of assessments toward intuitively appealing choices. If this is the case, one could expect students to improve their performance by engaging in more analytical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Study
Talanquer, Vicente; Pollard, John – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Calls for educational reform in undergraduate STEM education have become more prominent in recent years, particularly in introductory/foundational courses. Such reform efforts were initiated 10 years ago in the general chemistry program at the University of Arizona. In this contribution, we describe the major successes and challenges encountered…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Chemistry
Organic Chemistry and the Native Plants of the Sonoran Desert: Conversion of Jojoba Oil to Biodiesel
Daconta, Lisa V.; Minger, Timothy; Nedelkova, Valentina; Zikopoulos, John N. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
A new, general approach to the organic chemistry laboratory is introduced that is based on learning about organic chemistry techniques and research methods by exploring the natural products found in local native plants. As an example of this approach for the Sonoran desert region, the extraction of jojoba oil and its transesterification to…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Fuels, Science Laboratories, Natural Resources
Martini, Sheridan R.; Hartzell, Cynthia J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Computational chemistry is commonly addressed in the quantum mechanics course of undergraduate physical chemistry curricula. Since quantum mechanics traditionally follows the thermodynamics course, there is a lack of curricula relating computational chemistry to thermodynamics. A method integrating molecular modeling software into a semester long…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, College Science
Adams, Alison E. M.; Garcia, Jocelyn; Traustadóttir, Tinna – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Two sections of Genetics and Evolution were taught by one instructor. One group (the fully flipped section) had the entire class period devoted to active learning (with background material that had to be watched before class), and the other group (the partially flipped section) had just a portion of class time spent on active learning (with the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design, Undergraduate Study, College Science
Download full textHilborn, Robert C., Ed.; Howes, Ruth H., Ed.; Krane, Kenneth S., Ed. – American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2003
Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics (SPIN-UP) set out to answer an intriguing question: Why, in the 1990s, did some physics departments increase the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in physics or maintain a number much higher than the national average for their type of institution? During that decade, the number of…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, College Programs, Science Education
