P719: Lessons taught and lessons learned
Author:
Vickie M. Williamson, Texas A & M University, USA
Co-Author:
Date: 8/6/14
Time: 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM
Room: MAK A1111
Related Symposium: S52
Some of us are lucky to have a great mentor to pass on teaching tips. Between those from my mentors and the lessons I have learned teaching large lecture classes over many years, I have developed a list to pointers that I have shared with others. I am told these are very helpful to chemical educators. These will be shared with classroom examples.
P340: Student impressions, attitudes, and perceived learning with two homework systems
Author:
Caitlin J. Zumalt , Texas A & M University, USA (Presented by Vickie M. Williamson, Texas A & M University, USA)
Co-Author: Vickie M. Williamson, Texas A & M University, USA
Date: 8/4/14
Time: 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM
Room: MAK BLL 126
Related Symposium: S30
Students in the first semester of a general chemistry course at a large southwestern university completed a 3-week homework assignment using Mindtap, a Cengage Learning product. Mindtap is an electronic product that has homework questions embedded in the text, such that a short reading section is followed by a short question set. Due to technical difficulties, students were moved to OWL version 1 (Online Web Learning from Cengage Learning) for their next homework sets. The OWL system has the homework linked to the text, rather than embedded. With OWL, they completed two 2-week homework assignments. A survey was given on the day the second assignment was due. The survey included Likert-scaled and open-response questions dealing with students perceived level of understanding using the different systems, how easy the systems were to use, and the advantages/disadvantages of each system. This presentation will present the findings from a 300-person class for the quantitative and qualitative portions of the survey, with recommendations for the future.
