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Carrie R. Salmon; Paul A. Bonvallet; Yuan Xue; Susan E. Ramlo – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
General chemistry courses serve as foundational curriculum within most STEM undergraduate curricula, and hence, it is essential to assess student knowledge and application of learning outcomes for courses such as Introduction to Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Within the United States, paper-and-pencil examinations are typical for measuring…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
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Pyburn, Daniel T.; Pazicni, Samuel; Benassi, Victor A.; Tappin, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Past work has demonstrated that language comprehension ability correlates with general chemistry course performance with medium effect sizes. We demonstrate here that language comprehension's strong cognitive grounding can be used to inform effective and equitable pedagogies, namely, instructional interventions that differentially aid low-skilled…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Intervention, Limited English Speaking, Instructional Design