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Peer reviewedRoche, Victoria F. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1990
An algorithm presenting questions allowing prediction of the major type of biological activity elicited by a steroid hormone structure is designed to help students organize their approach to the interpretation of the complex structures and permit independent application of logical thought processes in pharmacological identification of other drug…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Chemistry, Classroom Techniques, Higher Education
Coscarelli, William C.; Schwen, Thomas M. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1979
Presented three algorithms to university students in an introductory laboratory chemistry course and found that differences in the effects of representation modes--flow charts, lists, and standard prose--were complex and changed over 10 lab sessions. There was no evidence that representation mode affected critical thinking ability or final grade.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking
