CPLP: A Chemical Professional Laboratory Program for General Chemistry

伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)正在启动化学专业实验室计划(CPLP)，作为编写和教授普通化学实验室的一种新模式。该计划在模拟化学专业人员的经验和工作场所的环境中教授化学。来自工程、护理、药学和实验室科学等专业的教职员工正在提供帮助。该项目包括芝加哥地区的四所社区学院，这些学院也是UIC专业学生的主要来源。这些是芝加哥城市学院的杜佩奇学院、威廉·雷尼·哈珀学院、奥克顿学院和哈罗德·华盛顿学院。这些学校的教职员工正在与UIC的教职员工就该项目的发展进行磋商，他们充当着传播网站的角色。这些实验室以一周为特色，以“正常”的方式学习一般的化学概念和技术。在第二周和偶尔第三周，学生们将这些技术应用于模拟或复制非化学家可能需要使用化学的环境的过程。例如，心脏病发作后血液酸度的控制；一种新催化剂的开发和测试；以及土壤元素组成的分析。该项目包括由UIC教育学院的一名教职员工进行的评估。该评估使用定性方法，使其在修订CPLP实验室手册和了解学生对实验室中非传统程序的反应方面更加有用。

The Chemical Professional Laboratory Program (CPLP) is being initiated at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as a new mode for writing and teaching general chemistry laboratories. The program teaches chemistry with environments that simulate the experience and workplace of chemical professionals. Assistance is being provided by faculty from professional programs, including engineering, nursing, pharmacy, and laboratory sciences. The program includes four Chicago-area community colleges that are also major sources of UIC professional students. These are the College of DuPage, William Rainey Harper College, Oakton College, and Harold Washington College of the City Colleges of Chicago. Faculty from those schools are consulting with those at UIC on the development of the program, and they are acting as dissemination sites. The laboratories feature one week where general chemistry concepts and techniques are studied in a "normal" manner. In the second and, occasionally, third weeks the students apply these techniques to a procedure that simulates or replicates the environment where a non-chemist might need to use chemistry. Examples include control of blood acidity after a heart attack; development and testing of a new catalyst; and analysis of elemental composition of soil. The program includes an assessment run by a faculty member from the UIC College of Education. The assessment uses qualitative methods, to make it more useful in revising the CPLP lab manual and in learning the response of students to non-traditional procedures in the laboratory.