Campus Units
Chemistry
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2013
Journal or Book Title
Trajectories of Chemistry Education Innovation and Reform
Volume
1145
Issue
5
First Page
65
Last Page
78
DOI
10.1021/bk-2013-1145.ch005
Abstract
This chapter considers efforts to enhance learning within the general chemisty course taken by pre-engineering students. Because this course is inherently offered as a service course, often for students in a different college from the Chemistry Department at a university, there are both constraints and opportunities related to the manner in which reform can be enacted. Efforts spanning roughly 15 years are described and an emphasis on the nature of problem-solving within the course emerges as a common theme. The issue of student motivation is also considered with pre-engineering students serving as a prototype of a type of student who doesn’t inherently see the value of learning chemistry.
Copyright Owner
American Chemical Society
Copyright Date
2013
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Holme, Thomas and Caruthers, Heather, "A Trajectory of Reform in General Chemistry for Engineering Students" (2013). Chemistry Publications. 429.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/chem_pubs/429
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Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education Commons, Other Chemistry Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons
Comments
Reprinted (adapted) with permission from ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1145. Copyright 2013 American Chemical Society.