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Arasasingham, Ramesh D.; Martorell, Ingrid; McIntire, Theresa M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
This six-year study involved an evaluation of whether student-learning gains for an online homework system that emphasized areas in which students are known to have difficulties--molecular-level conceptualization and visualization, and being able to recognize and relate a concept when it is represented symbolically, numerically, or visually--could…
Descriptors: Homework, Science Curriculum, Academic Achievement, Science Instruction
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Lewis, Scott E.; Shaw, Janet L.; Freeman, Kathryn A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
Creative exercises (CEs) are a form of assessment in which students are given a prompt and asked to write down as many distinct, correct, and relevant facts about the prompt as they can. Students receive credit for each fact that they include that is related to the prompt and distinct from the other facts they list. With CEs, students have an…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Education, Science Instruction, Evaluation