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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Madden, Sean P.; Jones, Loretta L.; Rahm, Jrene – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2011
This study examined the representational competence of students as they solved problems dealing with the temperature-pressure relationship for ideal gases. Seven students enrolled in a first-semester general chemistry course and two advanced undergraduate science majors participated in the study. The written work and transcripts from videotaped…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, Heuristics, Chemistry
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Supasorn, Saksri; Suits, Jerry P.; Jones, Loretta L.; Vibuljan, Sunanta – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2008
Many students perform extraction experiments without connecting relevant molecular features to corresponding macroscopic features. Two versions of an Organic Extraction Simulation, one with text "captions" and the other with "narration" accompanying the animation, were developed based on a cognitive view of multimedia learning. This instructional…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Narration, Scores, Spatial Ability
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MacArthur, James R.; Jones, Loretta L. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2008
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 Systems, voting-machines, and zappers) has grown in college chemistry classrooms within the last decade. This review summarizes the pedagogic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Classroom Communication, Student Reaction, Audience Response