The Chemistry Department at Shippensburg University has committed to an overhaul of the chemistry major program.  To this end, the first semester general chemistry laboratory experience has been radically altered.  In the past students were required to attend two three-hour laboratory sessions per week. The newly implemented (Fall 2011) laboratory is the standard one three-hour laboratory session per week. Though content was lost in the first semester experience, the content was not lost from the program.  This paper describes the changes made to the freshman laboratory experience, the pedagogical strategies behind the changes, and some of the mechanisms used by the department to retain content.

Redefining the first semester general chemistry laboratory experience at Shippensburg University

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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