Presents a summary of conclusions from the McMaster Conference in Hamilton, Ontario, June 19-23, 1978, which includes resources needed, curriculum reform, the teaching of introductory chemistry courses at the university and high school. (CS)

Presents a viewpoint regarding accomplishments of the McMaster Conference in Hamilton, Ontario, June 19-23, 1978, in terms of chemistry curricula in introductory chemistry courses. (CS)

Describes a chemistry course for liberal education college students, characterized by team teaching and application of knowledge to present problems and issues. (CS)

Presents data from a study of Princeton chemistry students that supports the idea that students themselves are better predictors of their academic performance than are teaching assistants. The implications of this finding for making tutoring recommendations are discussed. (CS)

Presents questionnaire results from chemistry TAs (N=18) at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle regarding the kinds of help needed by TAs. (CS)

Describes ways in which instruction and evaluation are individualized for students in a small community college chemistry course. (CS)

Briefly reviews the history of nuclear energy, artificial transmutations, the fission process, and nuclear energetics. A comparison of magnitude is made between chemical and nuclear energy. (CS)

Provides procedures appropriate for a high school chemistry class that demonstrate the Arrhenius law by determining the heat of vaporization of a volatile liquid. (CS)

Relates experiences of a high school chemistry teacher that suggest various techniques to motivate and encourage students. (CS)

Describes an advanced high school course which incorporates an industrial approach into the chemistry curriculum. Presents three case studies as examples taken from the local chemistry industry--the production of copper, bromine, and plastics. (CS)

Presents advantages and disadvantages of establishing a cooperative educational program for high-ability chemistry students in which governmental laboratory facilities are used by high school students. (CS)

Describes three activities: determination of the heat of combustion of a commercial breakfast cereal, qualitative analysis of halogens using hexane, and production of transparent soap. (CS)

Presents materials and procedures for a lecture demonstration in which liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen is poured between the poles of a powerful magnet. Hazards of these procedures are included in the discussion. (CS)

Describes a competency-based, modular laboratory course emphasizing the synthesis and characterization of polymers and directed toward senior undergraduate and/or first-year graduate students in science and engineering. One module, free-radical polymerization kinetics by dilatometry, is included as a sample. (CS)

Describes an organic chemistry experiment demonstrating the effect of temperature on reactivity as measured by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography. (CS)