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| In a traditional undergraduate organic chemistry course for non-science majors, students were able to predict the products of organic reactions, but they had serious difficulties when writing reaction mechanisms for those same reactions, despite obtaining perfect scores on their laboratory reports where reaction mechanisms were required. To address this shortfall, we implemented both POGIL activities in the lecture and the science writing heuristic in the laboratory to replace the standard lecture format and verification laboratory. This presentation will focus on student abilities to complete reaction mechanisms, retrosynthetic analyses, and synthesis problems in organic chemistry. Student performance on these questions as well as sample laboratory reports will be presented to show that non-science majors have the ability to learn organic chemistry from a mechanistic point of view. |
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POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning
1:30 PM-4:45 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Magnolia, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |