The results of science education research underscore the importance of enabling students to take an active role in their learning. The integration of online-homework and peer-assisted learning into general chemistry impacts the way students learn the content. Our research project examines the tailoring of learning experiences to the built-in interests of the students, and has the potential to cause a paradigm shift in chemistry teaching and learning. Students have demonstrated their facility with (perhaps addiction to) electronic communication in their daily lives, and willingly accept the online-homework as an alternative to the traditional studying of homework problems at the end of each chapter, and traditional problem solving techniques. This study took place at the City College of New York in the second part of a general chemistry course. We will present data that demonstrate combining online-homework and peer-assisted learning improves students' performance and attitudes towards the subject matter.

Impact of combining online-homework and peer-assisted learning on general chemistry

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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