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Exploring How Different Features of Animations of Sodium Chloride Dissolution Affect Students' Explanations
Resa M. Kelly; Loretta L. Jones
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 16, No. 5 (October 2007) pp. 413–429
Animations of molecular structure and dynamics are often used to help students understand the abstract ideas of chemistry. This qualitative study investigated how the features of two different styles of molecular-level animation affected students'...
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Lights, Camera, Reaction! The Interactive Videodisc: A Tool for Teaching Chemistry
Loretta L. Jones; Stanley G. Smith
T.H.E. Journal Vol. 16, No. 7 (1989) pp. 78–85
Describes the development of an interactive video system including history, cost, equipment needed, and copying of disks. Provides methodology for producing a program using several chemistry topics. Discusses current innovations such as touchscreens ...
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A Review of Literature Reports of Clickers Applicable to College Chemistry Classrooms
James R. MacArthur; Loretta L. Jones
Chemistry Education Research and Practice Vol. 9, No. 3 (2008) pp. 187–195
The use of clickers (also referred to as Audience Paced Feedback, Classroom Communication Systems, Personal Response Systems, Electronic Voting Systems, Student Response Systems, Audience Response Systems, voting-machines, and zappers) has grown in...
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Differential Effects of a Multimedia Goal-based Scenario To Teach Introductory Biochemistry--Who Benefits Most?
Regina Schoenfeld-Tacher; Loretta L. Jones; Kay A. Persichitte
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 10, No. 4 (2001) pp. 305–17
Investigates the relationship of cognitive and demographic variables to learning outcomes from a multimedia Goal-Based Scenario (GBS) lesson on DNA. Focuses on gender, ethnicity, prior science coursework in college and high school, final score in...
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Impact of a Pre-Laboratory Organic-Extraction Simulation on Comprehension and Attitudes of Undergraduate Chemistry Students
Saksri Supasorn; Jerry P. Suits; Loretta L. Jones; Sunanta Vibuljan
Chemistry Education Research and Practice Vol. 9, No. 2 (2008) pp. 169–181
Many students perform extraction experiments without connecting relevant molecular features to corresponding macroscopic features. Two versions of an Organic Extraction Simulation, one with text "captions" and the other with "narration" accompanying ...
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Relation of Student Characteristics to Learning of Basic Biochemistry Concepts from a Multimedia Goal-Based Scenario
Regina Schoenfeld-Tacher; Kay A. Persichitte; Loretta L. Jones
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)
This study sought to answer the question, Do all students benefit equally from the use of a hypermedia Goal-Based Scenario (GBS)? GBS is a subcategory of anchored instruction. The correlation between the demographic variables and achievement and...