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Elizabeth B. Vaughan; Saraswathi Tummuru; Jack Barbera – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Students' expectations for their laboratory coursework are theorized to have an impact on their learning experiences and behaviors, such as engagement. Before students' expectations and engagement can be explored in different types of undergraduate chemistry laboratory courses, appropriate measures of these constructs must be identified, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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April L. Millet; Emre Dinç; Timothy J. Bralower – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
This study aimed to examine the effect of four types of assessment on overall student success in an online college-level climate change course. Quizzes, midterms, lab assignments, and a capstone project as well as knowledge check questions were used to assess different aspects of student learning, consistent with Bloom's taxonomy hierarchy.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Test Format, Tests, Laboratory Experiments
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Yan Zhang; Yisi Yang; Qian Tao; Ying Xu; Xiaochun Jiang; Jia Chai; Kuai Zhou – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Under the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, an interdisciplinary project about the brewing and analysis of traditional Chinese rice wine was performed at home by junior students of the chemistry major at Huanggang Normal University under the remote guidance of teachers during the spring lockdown semester of 2020. Students were exposed to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
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Paton-Walsh, Clare – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2015
This paper describes a study aimed at assessing the ability of report templates to help students learn key concepts during undergraduate laboratory classes. The report templates were designed so that a set of assessment questions led the students through the logical steps required to perform the laboratory exercise and to calculate the required…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Scientific Concepts
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McLaren, Ingrid A. M.; Webber, Dale – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
This paper outlines the results of a collaborative effort between members of staff in the Departments of Life Sciences and Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, which involved the implementation of Writing Across the Curriculum strategies in an Ecology course. The lecturer for this course had expressed concerns regarding the poor quality of the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Ecology, Learner Engagement
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Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Kandil Ingeç, Sebnem – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Student Attitudes
Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Ingec, Sebnem Kandil – Online Submission, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Physics