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Chemical Education Today
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
A View of the Science Education Research Literature: Visual Aids in Laboratory Manuals Improve Comprehension
William R. Robinson
Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, 1393 Brown Building, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393

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March 1998
Vol. 75 No. 3
p. 282

Abstract
There are two interesting aspects to the report "Effect of a Laboratory Manual Design Incorporating Visual Information - Processing Aids on Student Learning and Attitudes" by Precharn Dechsri, Loretta Jones, and Henry Heikkinen, published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching 1997, 34, 891­904. The authors describe a laboratory manual with changes that lead to significantly higher student scores on measures of laboratory-related achievement and psychomotor skills in addition to more favorable attitudes toward laboratory activities. They also provide a useful checklist and rubric for scoring laboratory skills.
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*  Citation
Robinson, William R. J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 282.
*  Keywords
Chemical Education Research, Teaching/Learning Aids, Multimedia
*  History
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June 28, 1999
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