Ph.D., Princeton University, 1962. Research Associate, University of Illinois, 1962. Research in General Chemistry Pedagogy Introduction. The goal is to allow freshman chemistry students to do chemistry the way professional chemists do and not just learn material that many students have seen in high schools. Computer-controlled data acquisition and analysis.
Computers allow more variety and sophistication in data collection and analysis.
Refinements can be made very quickly as we observe student performance and get student feedback. There are 12 networked PCs per lab. Thus, each PC station is shared by two students. Below is a scene from a recent freshman chemistry lab course session. The progress of the reaction is monitored at 470 nm.