Instrumentation for Project-Based Laboratory Curricular Modifications

化学(12)这项建议的目标是通过创造能引起学生兴趣和兴趣的实验室环境，为他们提供个性化的、真实世界的实验室项目，让他们对化学家所做的工作和他们使用的工具有一种感觉，并灌输专业行为和态度，从而提高UVI学生在头两年的化学学习成绩。以前，学生们认为这些课程的实验室部分是一系列孤立的经历，最终导致计算和报告练习，这些练习是需要克服的障碍。学生们往往不太重视他们正在做的事情，也没有培养出任何真正调查的本质。化学系教员正在调整和实施汉普登悉尼学院开发的创新实验室课程，并进行适当的修改。UVI化学课程现在的重点是让所有化学学生，包括新生，使用包括仪器技术在内的各种适当的化学技术，获得扩展的和个性化的研究体验。

Chemistry (12)The objective of this proposal is to improve the success of UVI students in their first two years of chemistry by creating laboratory environments that interest and intrigue students, that give them individualized, real-world laboratory projects, that create a sense of what chemists do and the tools they use, and that instill professional behaviors and attitudes. Students formerly saw the laboratory portion of these courses as a series of isolated experiences culminating in calculation and reporting exercises that were barriers to overcome. The students often placed little importance on what they were doing and did not develop any sense of the nature of real investigation. Faculty in the Department of Chemistry are adapting and, with appropriate modifications, implementing the innovative laboratory curriculum developed at Hampden Sydney College. The UVI chemistry curriculum now focuses on exposing all chemistry students, including Freshmen, to extended and individualized research experiences using a full range of appropriate chemical techniques including instrumental techniques.