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Chemical Education Today
Teaching Nontraditional Students
John G. Shiber
Associate Professor of Biology, Prestonsburg Community College (KCTCS), 1 Bert T. Combs Drive, Prestonsburg, KY 41653
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December 1999
Vol. 76 No. 12
p. 1615
Abstract
Science, especially chemistry, and math both seem to have an aura about them that strikes fear into nontraditional college students. Indeed, as a scientist attempting to teach scientific concepts to community college students in central Appalachia, over half of whom are nontraditional, I spend a lot of time attempting to quell such fear. At first, I found it extremely difficult to do because when I began teaching here in 1990, my background had been chiefly at the university level with some advanced high-school science teaching, and I had had no exposure whatsoever to rural, nontraditional students.
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*  Citation
 Shiber, John G. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 1615.
*  Keywords
 Nonmajor Courses; Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice
*  History
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Last Updated:		 November 10, 1999
June 23, 2005
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