Chemistry Is in the News: Assessment of Student Attitudes toward Authentic News Media-Based Learning Activities

Hume, Deborah L.; Carson, Kathleen M.; Hodgen, Brian; Glaser, Rainer

doi:10.1021/ed083p662

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“…These students have significant demands on their time aside from their course work and, consequently, scheduling time for group work is a substantial challenge for everyone in the course. The findings of the correlations between work hours and lower portfolio scores for the group as well as previous findings, in which students complained that scheduling was a significant problem with group work (Hume et al 2006), supports these findings. Therefore, positive responses about group experience at the end of the semester are even more persuasive because these students are not easily able to accommodate group activities in their schedules.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Chemistry Is in the News (CIITN) is a curriculum that has been in development and implemented since 1997 (Glaser 2003;Glaser and Carson 2005;Glaser and Poole 1999;Hume et al 2006). In the winter semester of 2004, CIITN was employed in the first semester of a two-semester organic chemistry course sequence for science majors at the University of Missouri, Columbia.…”

Section: Chemistry Is In the News In The Classroommentioning

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Chemistry Is in the News: assessing intra‐group peer review

Carson

Glaser

2010

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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Interdisciplinarity is rapidly becoming a norm within both the professional and academic worlds, and the ability to collaborate is becoming an essential skill for all graduates. Chemistry Is in the News (CIITN) is a curriculum that aims to teach students this skill by engaging student collaborative groups in a project that ties real world events and topics to the content taught in the classroom. While the collaborative activity has been successful in many ways, the challenge of maintaining individual accountability within the collaborative activity has persisted. The need to balance the tension between promoting collaboration and maintaining individual performance standards drove the development of an intra-group peer review system. In developing this peer review system, four goals guide the design: the desire to promote collaboration, to produce a differentiated score among group members reflecting the contribution each person made, to improve student perception of fairness and accuracy in the assessment process of CIITN and to avoid artificially inflating students' grades. The system was assessed in the winter semester of 2004 in a large lecture course at a major Midwestern university via student questionnaires and the CIITN scores. Evidence is provided to suggest that the intra-group peer review system has met its core goals.

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Chemistry Is in the News: assessing intra‐group peer review

Carson

Glaser

2010

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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“…Although textbooks provide many real‐world applications of these areas of chemistry, I am always struggling to incorporate into the course various health‐related topics covered in the news and various media outlets. There have been previous efforts to effectively use the news to highlight and teach chemistry [12]. However, the approach I adopted was to take given topics covered in the course and find news clips to support discussion of these topics.…”

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Enhancing student interactions with the instructor and content using pen‐based technology, youtube videos, and virtual conferencing

Cox

2011

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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This report describes the incorporation of digital learning elements in organic chemistry and biochemistry courses. The first example is the use of pen-based technology and a large-format PowerPoint slide to construct a map that integrates various metabolic pathways and control points. Students can use this map to visualize the integrated nature of metabolism and how various hormones impact metabolic regulation. The second example is the embedding of health-related YouTube videos directly into PowerPoint presentations. These videos become a part of the course notes and can be viewed within PowerPoint as long as students are online. The third example is the use of a webcam to show physical models during online sessions using web-conferencing software. Various molecular conformations can be shown through the webcam, and snapshots of important conformations can be incorporated into the notes for further discussion and annotation. Each of the digital learning elements discussed in this report is an attempt to use technology to improve the quality of educational resources available outside of the classroom to foster student engagement with ideas and concepts.

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“…To reach this goal, we have developed a systematic teaching approach (Glaser, 2003;Glaser & Carson, in press;Glaser & Poole, 1999;Hume, Carson, Hodgen, & Glaser, 2004). This teaching innovation involves six levels to guide instructors in the stepwise implementation in their classes.…”

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Software for the Synergistic Integration of Science with ICT Education

Wu¹,

Glaser²

2004

JITE:Research

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Executive SummaryThe realization of information and communication technology (ICT) literacy is a global and complex objective. It has been argued that it cannot be accomplished by single-focused, stand-alone curricula. Instead, it has been recommended that ICT education be integrated into the instruction of other disciplines to effectively promote technical proficiency, discipline knowledge acquisition, and cognitive development. The Chemistry Is in the News (CIITN) Project exemplifies this integration through the combination of advances in chemistry teaching, chemical informatics, and the educational use of ICT.CIITN is an innovative curriculum that aims at the development of scientific, ICT, and media literacy by the engagement of the students in learning activities that are based on authentic news media, that parallel the research process, and are conducted in collaborative groups. The CIITN activities consist of the study, creation, and peer review of online CIITN portfolios. A CIITN portfolio consists of an electronically published news article from the actual online media, interpretive comments, pertinent links, references to primary sources, and questions.The CIITN webtool is designed to minimize time and effort associated with non-intellectual and technical aspects of the CIITN project for both students and instructors. Combining the power of data integration provided by database management system technology with the real-time multiuser access functionality of the Internet, the CIITN webtool enables and guides student teams to create and submit group projects, access group projects created by other teams, and complete peer evaluations (both inter-and intra-group). The design of the CIITN webtool parallels and supports the functionalities defined and requested by the philosophical, pedagogical, and organizational foundations of the CIITN Project.The underlying ideas are transferable and the CIITN Project and CIITN webtool can easily be adopted by other academic disciplines at any educational level. A preliminary assessment of the webtool was performed and is reported. The authors will provide software and portal space on the authors' machine free of charge to readers of JITE.

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Chemistry Is in the News: Assessment of Student Attitudes toward Authentic News Media-Based Learning Activities

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Chemistry Is in the News: assessing intra‐group peer review

Chemistry Is in the News: assessing intra‐group peer review

Enhancing student interactions with the instructor and content using pen‐based technology, youtube videos, and virtual conferencing

Software for the Synergistic Integration of Science with ICT Education

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