Chemistry Education Research and Practice
2008 Volume 9, Number 3
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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A Review of Literature Reports of Clickers Applicable to College Chemistry Classrooms
James R. MacArthur & Loretta L. Jones
The use of clickers (also referred to as Audience Paced Feedback, Classroom Communication Systems, Personal Response Systems, Electronic Voting Systems, Student Response Systems, Audience Response ... More
pp. 187-195
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Learning Stoichiometry: A Comparison of Text and Multimedia Formats
Karen L. Evans, David Yaron & Gaea Leinhardt
Even after repeated instruction, first year college chemistry students are often unable to apply stoichiometry knowledge to equilibrium and acid-base chemistry problems. The dynamic and interactive... More
pp. 208-218
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Exploring the Phenomenon of "Change of Phase" of Pure Substances Using the Microcomputer-Based-Laboratory (MBL) System
Evgenia Pierri, Anthi Karatrantou & Chris Panagiotakopoulos
We examined how first year students (10th grade) of Greek Senior High School could conceptualize the influence of the molecular weight of saturated fatty acids on the melting and the freezing point... More
pp. 234-239
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Effects and Implications of Mini-Lectures on Learning in First-Semester General Chemistry
Joe Toto & Kathy Booth
This study describes the efficacy of a novel tool, mini-lecture movies, in teaching Web based general chemistry. The analysis shows a marked improvement in student learning, as evidenced by a... More
pp. 259-266
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"SimChemistry" as an Active Learning Tool in Chemical Education
Kim Bolton, Elisabeth Saalman, Michael Christie, Ake Ingerman & Cedric Linder
The publicly available free computer program, "SimChemistry," was used as an active learning tool in the chemical engineering curriculum at the University College of Boras, Sweden. The activity... More
pp. 277-284
