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| Trinity University has received two NSF-CCLI grants to purchase three instruments, capillary electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, and atomic absorption. Both projects were designed to expose students to these instruments multiple times throughout their undergraduate career. The evaluation plans for these two projects included a component that attempted to track the impact of these repeated encounters on the understanding the students demonstrated about these techniques. Students were asked to fill out a questionnaire after each encounter with any one of the three instruments. When students completed the course sequence, their responses for all courses were sorted and compared. After highlighting key features of these two NSF projects, the success and failures of introducing these instruments to all levels of the curriculum, this presentation will discuss the status of our evaluation survey and attempt to answer the questions, what have the students learned, and what have we learned. The author gratefully acknowledges NSF (DUE 9952272 and 0088015) for support of this work. |
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NSF Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum
8:00 AM-11:50 AM, Thursday, 14 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon A1, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |