Even though a goal of many general chemistry curricula is to integrate and connect lecture and laboratory components, students often state that they don’t see the connection between general chemistry lecture and laboratory. In this study, students’ connections between general chemistry lecture and laboratory were investigated through interviews in which they: a) examined abbreviated general chemistry laboratory procedures to generate the corresponding general chemistry problems which encapsulated the essence of the laboratory procedures, with the data collected in the laboratory procedures representing the information given in the chemistry problems; b) examined general chemistry problems to generate the corresponding general chemistry laboratory procedures which could be used to practically solve the chemistry problems, with the information given in the chemistry problems representing the data collected in the laboratory procedures. The results of the students’ interviews, as well as implications for connections between general chemistry lecture and laboratory components, will be presented.

General chemistry students’ connections between lecture and laboratory

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