Development of an Assessment Tool To Measure Students’ Meaningful Learning in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory

2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 1149-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelli R. Galloway ◽  
Stacey Lowery Bretz
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry

What Faculty Interviews Reveal about Meaningful Learning in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory

2013 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Lowery Bretz ◽  
Michael Fay ◽  
Laura B. Bruck ◽  
Marcy H. Towns
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry

Video episodes and action cameras in the undergraduate chemistry laboratory: eliciting student perceptions of meaningful learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelli R. Galloway ◽  
Stacey Lowery Bretz
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Affective Learning ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
Affective Experiences

A series of quantitative studies investigated undergraduate students' perceptions of their cognitive and affective learning in the undergraduate chemistry laboratory. To explore these quantitative findings, a qualitative research protocol was developed to characterize student learning in the undergraduate chemistry laboratory. Students (N= 13) were observed and video recorded while performing one of their assigned laboratory experiments. Each student wore an action camera as well as a lapel microphone attached to a voice recorder to capture the experiment from the students' perspective. A tripod camera was also placed unobtrusively in the lab to record the student from a third person perspective. Students were interviewed within 48 hours of their video recording and asked to identify specific learning experiences in their laboratory experiment. The self-selected video episodes were shown to the students, and they were asked to describe what they were doing and why they were doing it. The students' descriptions were analyzed using Novak's theory of meaningful learning to characterize their cognitive and affective experiences. The self-identified learning experiences were dominated by descriptions of psychomotor learning with few students discussing cognitive experiences. The limited connections between cognitive and affective experiences revealed missed opportunities for meaningful learning.

Students’ meaningful learning experiences from participating in organic chemistry writing-to-learn activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha Gupte ◽  
Field M. Watts ◽  
Jennifer A. Schmidt-McCormack ◽  
Ina Zaimi ◽  
Anne Ruggles Gere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Writing To Learn ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Problem Solving Skills

Teaching organic chemistry requires supporting learning strategies that meaningfully engage students with the challenging concepts and advanced problem-solving skills needed to be successful. Such meaningful learning experiences should encourage students to actively choose to incorporate new concepts into their existing knowledge frameworks by appealing to the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning. This study provides a qualitative analysis of students’ meaningful learning experiences after completing three Writing-to-Learn (WTL) assignments in an organic chemistry laboratory course. The assignments were designed to appeal to the three domains necessary for a meaningful learning experience, and this research seeks to understand if and how the WTL assignments promoted students’ meaningful learning. The primary data collected were the students’ responses to open-ended feedback surveys conducted after each assignment. These responses were qualitatively analyzed to identify themes across students’ experiences about their meaningful learning. The feedback survey analysis was triangulated with interviews conducted after each assignment. The results identify how the assignments connected to students’ existing knowledge from other courses and indicate that assignment components such as authentic contexts, clear expectations, and peer review supported students’ meaningful learning experiences. These results inform how assignment design can influence students’ learning experiences and suggest implications for how to support students’ meaningful learning of organic chemistry through writing.

Enhancing students' HOTS in laboratory educational activity by using concept map as an alternative assessment tool

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. B. A. Ghani ◽  
N. H. Ibrahim ◽  
N. A. Yahaya ◽  
J. Surif
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Concept Maps ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Concept Map ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Laboratory Learning

Educational transformation in the 21st century demands in-depth knowledge and understanding in order to promote the development of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). However, the most commonly reported problem with respect to developing a knowledge of chemistry is poor mastery of basic concepts. Chemistry laboratory educational activities are shown to be less effective in developing an optimum conceptual understanding and HOTS among students. One factor is a lack of effective assessment and evaluation tools. Therefore, the primary focus of this study is to explore concept maps as an assessment tool in order to move students' thinking skills to a higher level during laboratory learning activities. An embedded mixed method design is used in this study, which has also employed a pre-experimental research design. This design triangulates quantitative and qualitative data, which are combined to strengthen the findings. A low-directed concept mapping technique, convergence scoring method, and pre-post laboratory concept map were used in this study. An electrolysis HOTS test was used as the research instrument in order to measure the level of student achievement with respect to high-level questions. In addition, the thought process that is involved when students construct concept maps has been explored and studied in detail by utilising a think-aloud protocol. Results showed a positive development towards understanding and higher level thinking skills in students with respect to electrolysis concepts learned through chemistry laboratory activities. An investigation of the students' thinking processes showed that high-achieving students were more capable of giving a content-based explanation of electrolysis and engaged in monitoring activities more often while building a concept map. Nonetheless, all categories of students managed to show a positive increase in the activities of explanation and monitoring during the construction of concept maps after they were exposed to the assessment tool in the laboratory learning activities. In conclusion, the assessment activity using concept maps in laboratory learning activities has a positive impact on students' understanding and stimulates students to increase their HOTS.

Analysis of the Physical Chemistry Experiment for the 12th National Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Tournament

Daxue Huaxue ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 2109118-0
Author(s):  
Lipeng Zhou ◽  
Xubo Zhao ◽  
Jinshuai Song ◽  
Pu Liu ◽  
Xiaomei Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Experiment

Analysis of Physical Chemistry Experiment for the 11th National Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Tournament

Daxue Huaxue ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Shuying ZHU ◽  
◽  
Yi LI ◽  
Shuting WU ◽  
Yanqiong SUN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Experiment
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