Improving Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Education using Modern, Rapid Spectrophotometers.

化学（12）UV/Vis和UV/Vis/荧光微孔板阅读器，这些仪器主要用于研究和工业应用，用于改进本科化学核心课程。本项目全面探讨了这些仪器在提高化学课程质量方面的优势。实验室练习演示一般光谱学概念与机械简单，传统的分光光度计和微孔板阅读器开发用于各级化学课程。微孔板读取器的一个优点是可以快速生成大量数据。学生们现在花更多的时间在数据的解释和表达上，这些技能可以转化为数学和科学的各个领域。这些仪器非常适合在大量招生的低年级班级中介绍化学、生物化学和分析光谱学应用，也为高年级实验室课程和本科生研究项目提供了许多优势。另外一个紫外/可见/荧光微孔板读卡器安置在美国土著部落学院萨利什库特奈学院，以支持和加强正在进行的合作，包括生物化学课程和本科生研究。成功演示所提出的仪器的优点对如何教授各种概念和方法具有重大影响。许多机构都负担得起这些工具，从而解决了更广泛的影响，并表明本项目制定的成功教学方法可以在国家范围内加以调整。

Chemistry (12)UV/Vis and UV/Vis/fluorescence microplate readers, instruments that have been used mostly for research and industrial applications, are used to improve the core undergraduate chemistry curriculum. The project comprehensively explores the advantages of these instruments for enhancement of the chemistry curriculum. Laboratory exercises that demonstrate general spectroscopy concepts with both mechanically simple, conventional spectrophotometers and the microplate readers are developed for use at all levels of chemistry courses. One advantage of the microplate reader is the rapid generation of large amounts of data. Students now spend more time on interpretation and presentation of data, skills that translate to all areas of math and science. These instruments are ideally suited for introducing chemical, biochemical, and analytical spectroscopy applications in large enrollment lower division classes and they also provide many advantages for the upper-division laboratory classes and undergraduate research projects. One additional UV/Vis/fluorescence microplate reader is housed at Salish Kootenai College, a Native American Tribal College, to support and enhance ongoing collaborations, including a biochemistry course and undergraduate research. Successful demonstration of the advantages of the proposed instrumentation has a significant impact on how various concepts and methodologies are taught. The instruments are affordable for many institutions, thereby addressing broader impacts and suggesting that the successful pedagogical approaches developed in this project can be adapted nationally.