Trajectories of chemistry education innovation and reform
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Trajectories of chemistry education innovation and reform
（ACS symposium series, 1145）
American Chemical Society , Distributed in print by Oxford University Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
The Symposium Series of books from the American Chemical Society (ACS) serves as a repository of important trends in chemical science and education. This collection provides, in essence, a set of snapshots of the field and helps establish matters of sufficient importance to merit discussion, by highlighting the topics of specific symposia held at ACS scientific meetings. This particular volume fits within this paradigm well. Funding for projects in science or science
education has inherent importance for any of a variety of reasons, but this symposium was not rooted in the economics, but rather in the sense of the continuity of leadership throughout an array of changes in how reform was approached by the NSF. In a practical sense, what the continuity of the
permanent program officers provides is a means by which reform efforts can grow incrementally, even while specific funding initiatives come and go. This symposium, therefore, provided a moment to look at the trajectories of reform, and it served as the generating moment for this volume. The broad concept of educational reform in science and particularly within chemistry is a pervasive one in the United States and has been for decades (1-4). Nonetheless, the ability to enact large scale change,
based on theories and evidence of efficacy has been modest at best. This collection of articles offers the suggestion that the fragmented nature of many reform efforts represents one critical reason for the modest success. By gathering a group of articles that describe reform endeavors that have been
sustained over some length of time, this book shows the importance of continuity in funding for both reform efforts and the concomitant assessment of the outcomes of these reforms.
Table of Contents
- 1. Importance of Considering Longitudinal Trajectories in Education Reform
- Efforts
- Thomas A. Holme, Melanie M. Cooper, and Pratibha Varma-Nelson
- 2. Trends in NSF-Supported Undergraduate Chemistry Education,
- 1992-2012
- Susan H. Hixson
- Trajectories of Reform
- in Curricula
- 3. Research on Learning in the Chemistry Laboratory
- Dawn Rickey and Lydia T. Tien
- 4. Twenty Years of Learning in the Cooperative General Chemistry
- Laboratory
- Melanie M. Cooper and Santiago Sandi-Urena
- 5. A Trajectory of Reform in General Chemistry for Engineering Students ... 65
- Thomas A. Holme and Heather Caruthers
- 6. Developing a Content Map and Alignment Process for the Undergraduate
- Curriculum in Chemistry
- April L. Zenisky and Kristen L. Murphy
- Trajectories of Reform of
- Teaching Tools and Methods
- 7. PLTL: Tracking the Trajectory from Face-to-Face to Online
- Environments
- Pratibha Varma-Nelson and Julianna Banks
- 8. Working To Build a Chemical Education Practice
- Donald J. Wink, Sharon Fetzer Gislason, and Julie Ellefson
- 9. The Evolution of Calibrated Peer ReviewTM
- Arlene A. Russell
- 10. A Chronology of Assessment in Chemistry Education
- Stacey Lowery Bretz
- Trajectories of Reform of Institutions and Institutional Collaboration
- 11. Lessons Learned from Collaborations in Chemistry Assessment across
- Universities: Challenges in Transfer and Scale
- Pamela L. Paek and Thomas A. Holme
- 12. Undergraduate Research with Community College Students: Models and
- Impacts
- Thomas B. Higgins
- 13. Preparing the Future STEM Faculty: The Center for the Integration of
- Research, Teaching, and Learning
- Robert D. Mathieu
- 14. Improving STEM Student Success and Beyond: One STEP at a Time
- Maureen A. Scharberg
- Editors' Biographies
- Indexes
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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