Thursday, August 30, 2007: 8:15 AM-5:00 PM
Capitol (Adams Mark)
Chemical and chemical engineering education
This symposium will feature talks on innovative curricular and pedagogical approaches for the enhancement of chemical and chemical engineering education at the secondary, college/university, and graduate levels.
Organizer:Morton Z. Hoffman
8:15 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:20 AMPromoting cooperative learning via test design
G. A. Crosby
9:00 AMA review of the effective use of clickers in college level science courses
James R. MacArthur, Loretta L. Jones
9:30 AMMedia Resources Designed to Enhance General Chemisrty Courses
Steven Wood, Greg Allen, Stephen Stacey, Morgan Gainer, Daniel Davidson, Evan Carpenter
10:00 AMCoffee Break
10:30 AMToward increasing chemical literacy
Morton Z. Hoffman
11:00 AMExtending "chemistry is in the news" to high school students
Susan M. Schelble, Mark Trimble, Anna Noble, Melissa Rizzuto
11:30 AM“I could see myself as a chemist”: A case study of science identity formation of nine Mexican American females in high school chemistry
Renee P. Beeton, Loretta L. Jones
12:00 PMLunch Break
1:15 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:20 PMQuantitative comparison of three standardization methods using a one-way ANOVA for multiple mean comparison
Russell D. Barrows
1:40 PMConsiderations for the selection of a fluid equation of state for thermodynamic calculations
James G. Eberhart
2:00 PMEnergy and global warming
E. Gerald Meyer
2:30 PMPioneer analytics: Integrating pharmaceutical analyses into analytical chemsitry curriculum
Keith Miller
3:00 PMEnd of Session

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