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Chem-Path To Writing Chemical Names and Formulas
Fred Omega Garces Miramar College, SDCCD
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SDCCD and Miramar College SDCCD 75,000 (DW: 131 K) Miramar 13,000
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Miramar College Allied Health Chem
Decline of offerings amidst state cuts
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Student Demographics Colleges Math Skills Major AHC Units Work Kid Military ESL Gender
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There Exist a Need to Help
Allied Health Students with Fundamentalsa Interac>ve tutorials with smart-‐pen technology.
Use ChemED ChemPath as vehicle to master concepts in chemistry.
Tutorial development, Deployment and Results.
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Names and Formulas Vernacular There is a need to know how to write chemical names and formulas.
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Chemical Nomenclature is a Foreign Language to Students
How many times have you heard your students say, chemistry
is like a foreign language?
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Students need to know, the importance of chemical nomenclature
Death by DHMO Special Assignment:
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Planning What should be in the Tutorial?
Background
Information
Fundamentals
Rules to Chemical
Names and
Formulas
Interactive
Guide
Examples via
Multimedia
Relevancy
Practice
Worksheet
on MSDS
Fun
Activity
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The Week of Infamy Using ChemPath as the Portal
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The Week of Infamy Using ChemPath as the Portal
What doesn’tKill you willMake YouStronger
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Focal Question Will students who complete
the nomenclature tutorial and the corresponding worksheet activities, master chemical
nomenclature at a 90% proficiency level?
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Chem Ed Research Theory: Information Processing & Problem Solving
Quantitative Methodology: Achievement Group & Subgroup: Two courses, traditional and online … Validity: Given to advance students Reliability: Given as pretest... Assessment of achievement: Pre & Post Lab Q, Exam, Final
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Infrastructure Navigating through ChemPath
Part 1
Background Information Fundamentals
Rules to Chemical Names and Formulas
Part 2
Interactive Guide
Examples via Multimedia
Part 3
Relevancy
Practice Worksheet on MSDS Part4
Fun (?) Activity
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Using the Resources from ChemDL Shows importance and utilization in the everyday life.
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Building Interaction Shows importance and utilization in the real world
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List of
Multimedia
Examples
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Assess Learning via Worksheet and Crossword Nomenclature
Worksheet scenario and Crossword Nomenclature
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Deployment IRB: Submit on 8/9 Reviewed 9/2 Approved 9/23
Study Conducted for Fall Spring
9/26/11 2/27/12
Activities
Lab Worksheet
X-Word Sheet
Quiz
Midterm
Final
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Consent Study Conducted for Fall Spring
Roster/Finish/Consent Roster/Finish/Consent
Consent 202 / 184 / 143 103 / 89 / 74 Activities
Lab Worksheet
X-Word Sheet
Quiz
Midterm
Final
Spring 2012
Total Roster Completed Course Participated Enrolled in OL Lec
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What did I get myself in to… … oodles of data
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What did I get myself in to… … oodles of data
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…and more data
…OK, suck it up and lets get to work.
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Results: Be careful for what you ask for
Data
And
Results
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Validity Pretest
0.00.10.20.30.40.50.60.70.80.91.0
Science Majors Fall 2011 Spring 2012
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Quiz2 Midterm Final (Scores)
Raw Scores FY Total Class Participated Did not Participate Qz2 (50pts) 33.6(108) + 8 34.1(80) ) + 8.3 32.3(28) + 7
Mid (200pts) 155.8(112) + 38.6 160.4 (83) + 40.1 142.7(29) + 30.9
Final (250pts) 175.6(96) + 46.7 181.6(73) + 47.4 156.4(25) + 39.4
Assessment Scores as indicator of proficiency FY 2011-2012
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Nomenclature Questions in Final Exam
• % Scores Total Class (96) Participated(73) Did not Participate(25) • Q1 58 64 40
• Q2 46 47 44 • Q3 77 78 76 • Q4 44 43 44
• Q5 48 + 34 53 + 31.6 32 + 28.6 • Avg 53.7(96) + 23.7 58(73) + 22.2 41.5(25) + 23.6
Expand to Final Exam Questions specific to Nomenclature.
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Student-t: Replicate Measurements
Q5, Significantly different at 99.5% CL
Avg Q1-Q5, Significantly diff at 99.9 CL
Conclusion …
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Conclusion
Working on Tutorial… does improve retention of chemical nomenclature*.
… or does it ? *Not at 90% proficiency
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Future Improve Tutorial- • Provide more examples of relevancy • Improve video quality of pen-cast (caption) • More variety of cross word and word seek puzzles Deployment- • Improve direction and instructions of tutorial • Strict control of when students complete tutorial • Monitor assessments (lab questions, quiz, midterm, final) Analysis – • Detailed analysis and more statistics to see if observations
made in last year carries over to fall 2013.
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Acknowledgements "The material is based upon work supported by the Na>onal Science Founda>on under Grants No. NSF-‐DUE 1044239 and NSF-‐DUE 0937796. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommenda>onsexpressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNa>onal Science Founda>on.”
ChemED DL, U. Wisconsin: John Moore, Jus>n Shorb, Linda Faris-‐Cra`
Summit Conf, CER, CU: Diane Bunce, Kelly Neiles, Elizabeth Flens, Machew Tommey, Lynn Diener
Miramar College for travel support.
… and least I forget my fellow colleagues who all grew stronger from the experience….