Improving Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Education using Modern, Rapid Spectrophotometers.

化学（12）UV/维斯和UV/维斯/荧光酶标仪，主要用于研究和工业应用的仪器，用于改善核心本科化学课程。该项目全面探讨了这些仪器的优势，以提高化学课程。实验室练习，演示了一般的光谱学概念与机械简单，传统的比重计和酶标仪开发用于化学课程的各个层次。酶标仪的一个优点是快速生成大量数据。学生们现在花更多的时间解释和展示数据，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规模招生的低年级课程中引入化学，生物化学和分析光谱学应用，它们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。美国原住民部落学院Salish Kootenai学院还设有一台额外的紫外/维斯/荧光酶标仪，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。成功的示范所提出的仪器的优点有显着的影响，如何各种概念和方法的教学。这些工具是许多机构负担得起的，从而解决了更广泛的影响，并表明该项目中开发的成功教学方法可以在全国范围内加以调整。

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.