Tuesday, 19 October 2004: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Boardroom - 203 (Illinois Central College)

CHED: Research in Chemistry Education

Presentation of data-based research on students in the chemistry classroom or laboratory. Although the area of chemistry education is open, papers should address why the research was conducted and/or the problems being investigated, how it was conducted and analyzed, and the significance of their findings to other members of the educational community.
Organizer:Paul Charlesworth
8:30 AM Chemical Nanotechnology: A Liberal Arts Approach Toward a Basic Course in Emerging Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Lon A, Porter Jr.
8:50 AM Early Accounts from a NSF-STEP Grant
Dana Richter-Egger, Hesham Ali, Jack Heidel, Brad Morrison, Michele O'Connor
9:10 AM Discussion Board-Based Group Work in a Large Enrollment First Semester Organic Chemistry Lecture Course
Tyson A. Miller, Stanley G. Smith
9:30 AM Codeswitching in chemistry lessons in South African Township high schools
Frackson Mumba, Marissa Rollnick, Viven mweene Chabalengula, William F.J Hunter
9:50 AM Break
10:10 AM Adding Numbers to Sophomore Organic Chemistry: Brønsted Acidity and Reaction Mechanisms
Predrag-Peter Ilich
10:30 AM Translating chemistry education research into practice in the classroom
William Hunter
10:50 AM Website Outline: History of Chemistry
Robert B. Gayhart
11:10 AM Some Comments on the History of the Application of Thermodynamics to Cosmology and Ecology
David F. Ilten

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