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Formative Assessments Using Text Messages To Develop Students’ Ability To Provide Causal Reasoning In General Chemistry, Ryan D. Sweeder, Deborah Herrington
Formative Assessments Using Text Messages To Develop Students’ Ability To Provide Causal Reasoning In General Chemistry, Ryan D. Sweeder, Deborah Herrington
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Formative assessment is critical in providing students the opportunity to self-assess their content knowledge and providing data to inform instructional decisions. It also provides students with information about course expectations. If, as called for in numerous science instruction reform efforts, we expect students to be able to apply their chemistry knowledge to analyze data and construct coherent explanations, then not only must summative assessments include items that require this of students, but students must also be provided with frequent and ongoing opportunities to individually practice this difficult task and receive feedback. Although online homework systems can be quite effective at …
Becoming A Chemist: Graduate Students' Perspectives On Chemists And Chemistry, Bethany Walls
Becoming A Chemist: Graduate Students' Perspectives On Chemists And Chemistry, Bethany Walls
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In order to better understand the development of chemistry graduate students throughout the research phase of their Ph.D. degrees, we conducted a study on graduate students' self-concept of being chemists. This research is motivated by our previous results that forming identities as chemists is a key step in the transformation of organic chemistry graduate students from laboratory technicians into practicing chemists. In this research study, analytical, inorganic, and physical chemistry graduate students participated in a single, semi-structured interview designed to probe how their beliefs on what it means to know and practice chemistry affect their graduate training. Results from these …