CHED 455 |
| Laboratory classes are an integral part of any chemistry undergraduate curriculum as they are required to impart to students essential skills in synthesis, analysis and characterization. Here we discuss how we have incorporated within our first-year chemistry curriculum various practical and theory classes which enhance not only the student's ability to perform quantitative analysis through titrations, etc., but also to gain valuable skills through hand-on experience in data analysis. For example, our students are learning how to get estimates of uncertainties in their measured quantities and also be able to use various statistical tools (e.g. to estimate whether the two water samples are significantly different in terms their hardness) which are so essential in making the correct analysis and deductions from the experimental data. |
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The Laboratory and First-Year Chemistry
1:30 PM-3:50 PM, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Seaport -- Flagship Room, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |