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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > May  >
Chemical Education Today
A Good Beginning
W. G. Sayre
Chemistry Department, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 16057-1326

with the assistance of Nancy E. Sayre
Clarion University, Clarion, PA 16214

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May 1999
Vol. 76 No. 5
p. 621
Abstract
The first-period activity in the classroom is critical for success in the general chemistry course. Past first-day activities at Slippery Rock University have included administering the Toledo test or an in-house mathematics readiness test to help the students understand their degree of readiness for the course. In the past students with poor preparation were shunted into a prep chem course. If no tests were administered then the students received the "this is a university-level course-you must work hard, etc." lecture. This fall the first-period activity was shifted from the intellectual readiness or hard work focus to a behavioral/attitude activity. This resulted in the best performance on the first hour exam in ten years, 2.1 times better than the previous best performance.
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*  Citation
 Sayre, W. G.; Sayre, Nancy E. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 621.
*  Keywords
 Introductory / High School Chemistry; Teaching / Learning Aids; Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice; General Chemistry; education; success; behavior or attitude
*  History
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Last Updated:		 June 11, 1999
June 23, 2005
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