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Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Chemical Information Instructor
Learning To Search in Ten Easy Steps: A Review of a Chemical Information Course
Judith N. Currano
Chemistry Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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March 2005
Vol. 82 No. 3
p. 484
Abstract
The University of Pennsylvania‘s course in chemical information is mandatory for all first-year graduate students and consists of a ten-week series of classes covering the major sources in chemical information. At the end of the course, all students take a final exam covering all resources learned. The classes are taught in an electronic classroom in which students can follow along with the demonstrations on their individual workstations; to further enforce techniques learned, the students must complete an assignment on the resource of the day before leaving class. A student passes the course upon meeting these criteria while receiving a score of at least 70% of all possible points: completing one homework assignment for each resource learned, taking a final exam based on all of the resources, and creating a guide to the literature on a subject the student chooses. Student response to the class has been very positive, and average exam scores and total scores for the 2002 students were very high. Information from course syllabi and sample assignments are also included.
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Example in-class assignments, homework assignments, sample final exams, and syllabi from the 2002 offering of each of the four sections of this course (organic, physical, inorganic, and biological) are available.
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 Currano, Judith N. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 484.
*  Keywords
 Chemical Information; Chemical information education*; Chemical information resources*; Computer-Based Learning; Curriculum; Graduate education*; Teaching / Learning Theory / Practice
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February 16, 2005
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