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Maynard H. Schaus; Victor R. Townsend Jr.; Shane Boyd; Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson; Eric E. Johnson; Soraya M. Bartol; Marielle Postava-Davignon – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
In 2017, the Department of Biology at Virginia Wesleyan University modified its two-course introductory sequence in response to high DFW rates (>50% scoring a D, F, or withdrawing) in the first semester. The revised curriculum created a new third course and moved content that many students struggled with from the first semester to the third…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Education, Success
Allen, William E.; Hosbein, Kathryn N.; Kennedy, Anthony M.; Whiting, Brandon; Walker, Joi P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This manuscript describes the implementation of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) sequence in chemistry that uses research to link a lower division, organic chemistry course to an upper-division, analytical chemistry course. In the CURE sequence, students created a library of modified sugar molecules during CURE-1, Organic,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Scientific Research, Organic Chemistry
Reed, Charlotte R.; Wolfson, Adele J. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2021
Learning progressions (LPs) present a potential tool to guide students toward deeper understanding of core concepts as they move through a curriculum. In addition to providing a theoretical scheme for education researchers, LPs can provide a powerful framework for instructors and students in organizing curricula. We have developed the outline of a…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Chemistry, Educational Resources, College Students
Todd, Amber; Romine, William L.; Correa-Menendez, Josefina – Research in Science Education, 2019
Identifying contingencies between constructs in a multi-faceted learning progression (LP) is a challenging task. Often, there is not enough evidence in the literature to support connections, and once identified, they are difficult to empirically test. Here, we use causal model search to evaluate how connections between ideas in a genetics LP…
Descriptors: College Science, Genetics, Introductory Courses, Biology
Arthurs, Leilani A.; Elwonger, Justin; Kowalski, Chelsie M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2021
Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about groundwater previously described by (Arthurs, 2019). To assess the impact this instructional sequence had on facilitating the…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Schemata (Cognition), Undergraduate Students
Wilcox, Bethany R.; Pollock, Steven J.; Bolton, Daniel R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The cyclic format of the undergraduate physics curriculum depends on students' ability to recall and utilize material covered in prior courses in order to reliably build on that knowledge in later courses. However, there is evidence to suggest that people often do not retain all, or even most, of what they learned previously. How much information…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Interaction, Introductory Courses, Instructional Effectiveness
Schnoebelen, Carly Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In response to both nationwide calls for reform and a perception that the existing chemistry curriculum was not meeting the needs of life science students, faculty in the department of chemistry at Purdue created a redesigned chemistry course sequence specifically aimed at preparing biology majors. The new sequence, called the 1-2-1 curriculum,…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students)
Manneh, Ilana A.; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Hamza, Karim M.; Eriksson, Lars – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
In this study, we explore the issues and challenges involved in supporting students' learning to discern relevant and critical aspects of determining oxidation states of atoms in complex molecules. We present a detailed case of an interaction between three students and a tutor during a problem-solving class, using the analytical tool of practical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Education
Goess, Brian C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
A two-semester second-year introductory organic chemistry sequence featuring one semester of accelerated organic chemistry followed by one semester of bioorganic chemistry is described. Assessment data collected over a six-year period reveal that such a course sequence can facilitate student mastery of fundamental organic chemistry in the first…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Organic Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Sequential Approach
Remsburg, Alysa J.; Harris, Michelle A.; Batzli, Janet M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014
How can science instructors prepare students for the statistics needed in authentic inquiry labs? We designed and assessed four instructional modules with the goals of increasing student confidence, appreciation, and performance in both experimental design and data analysis. Using extensions from a just-in-time teaching approach, we introduced…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Learning Modules, Statistics
Blakely, Alan W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
This article describes the impact of starting with gases in an introductory chemistry course at a community college. Students in the author's class frequently are very weak in algebra skills, and this has a cumulative impact over time that culminates in student struggles when moles and reaction stoichiometry are discussed. The rationale behind…
Descriptors: Stoichiometry, Chemistry, Algebra, Introductory Courses
Harris, Daniel Wyatt – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research examining animation use for student learning has been conducted in the last two decades across a multitude of instructional environments and content areas. The extensive construction and implementation of animations in learning resulted from the availability of powerful computing systems and the perceived advantages the novel medium…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Animation, Earth Science, Scientific Concepts
Pakhira, Deblina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Exposure to organic chemistry concepts in the laboratory can positively affect student performance, learning new chemistry concepts and building motivation towards learning chemistry in the lecture. In this study, quantitative methods were employed to assess differences in student performance, learning, and motivation in an organic chemistry…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Science, Science Instruction, Lecture Method
Clark, Larry, Ed.; Zubizarreta, John, Ed. – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2008
This monograph is a companion piece to "Teaching and Learning in Honors." The authors in this monograph are dedicated to exploring the sometimes magical, sometimes ordinary, sometimes rewarding, sometimes challenging connections between good teaching and deep, lasting learning. Questions regarding students' learning, pedagogical…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academically Gifted, College Students, College Instruction

Atkinson, George F. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1974
Summarizes the characteristics of critical path methods for preparing curricula, including behavioral definitions of curriculum objectives, module lengths, effects of published network of prerequisites on individually paced learning, and forms of network-based planning. Indicates that the network planning has the advantage of clarifying the place…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Chemistry, College Science, Courses
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