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Mooring, Suazette R.; Mitchell, Chloe E.; Burrows, Nikita L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Organic Chemistry is recognized as a course that presents many difficulties and conceptual challenges for students. To combat the high failure rates and poor student attitudes associated with this challenging course, we implemented a "flipped" model for the first-semester, large-enrollment, Organic Chemistry course. In this flipped…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Organic Chemistry, Blended Learning
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Zuidema, Daniel R.; Eames, Kevin J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Student performance in a high school dual-enrollment chemistry course was compared with student performance in the corresponding traditional college course. The two courses were taught by the same instructor and evaluated using the same American Chemical Society (ACS) standardized examination. Interestingly, the high school dual-enrollment…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Graduates, Chemistry, Performance Based Assessment
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Basu-Dutt, Sharmistha; Slappey, Charles; Bartley, Julie K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
As part of a campus-wide, externally funded project to increase performance in, enthusiasm for, and retention within STEM disciplines, we developed an interdisciplinary, team-taught first-year seminar course. The construction and delivery of this course was designed to show the relevance of selected general chemistry topics such as matter and…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, First Year Seminars, Grade Point Average, Chemistry