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The Effect of an Organic Chemistry Card Game on Students' Ability to Differentiate Between Elimination and Substitution Reactions
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The Effect of an Organic Chemistry Card Game on Students' Ability to Differentiate Between Elimination and Substitution Reactions
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Video recordings
URI / Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/muislandora:3012
Created
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract
Organic Chemistry as a whole is a notoriously difficult course, with some universities reporting attrition rates of 40% or higher in their undergraduate organic chemistry courses (Grove, Hershberger, & Bretz, 2008; Horowitz, Rabin, Brodale, 2013; Paulson, 1999). This research project investigated the use of a multimodal card game as an effective study aid at the collegiate level of education: specifically in the context of an organic chemistry course, in helping students differentiate between substitution and elimination reactions.This instructional aid was designed to encourage group discussion and debate regarding possible chemical syntheses, while incorporating various levels of Bloom’s taxonomy and multiple VARK learning styles. There were 46 participants in this study from two different sections of organic chemistry courses at Marymount University. These students participated in one of three practice sessions wherein they learned how to play the card game and completed pre and post surveys and quizzes for data analysis. Data analysis identified that there were statistically significant improvements both in students’ self-rated survey responses and quiz scores related to their understanding of elimination and substitution reactions. Therefore, researchers concluded that incorporating this multimodal card game as a study tool within the context of a review session had a significant and positive affect on student learning.
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