For the last couple of years I have noticed that students tend to forget what they have learned even after scoring well in the exams.
Once students learn a new module/chapter, most of them seem to completely forget about the previous chapters which is not a very good sign especially for a mathematics student.
For several years now, I have students write lab reports in calculus I, II and differential equations. The set of directions given to students on what to include in the lab report were ones that I created. Every semester, students would ask follow up questions on what to include in their document. Students constantly missed points for missing information/data or not being detailed enough. This past semester, I decided to see if chemistry faculty had a lab report template, and they do! So, Dr.
In Fall 2015, of my Introduction to Psychology classes, I had an honors class required to do a research project. As such, I decided to have my honors class students research, design, run and analyze their own projects (for examples of their projects, feel free to email me!).
At the end of the semester I gave a common final to all of my introductory courses. To explore if actively doing research methods helps learning, I pulled questions from the final having to do with research methods and analyzed performance on those particular questions compared to the test as a whole.
Since rolling-out a new accounting textbook in Fall of 2015, covering three courses, ACC111, ACC230, & ACC240, the decision was made to move chapter 6, Inventory Valuation, from ACC111 to ACC230, effective Spring 2016.
The EDU students at EMCC strive to become future preK-12th grade teachers. I strive to prepare my students for the reality of teaching by teaching the students to lesson plan, to provide effective instruction, and in maintaining strong classroom management. For the past 3 years, my students have learned the foundational skills in each area through in-class lesson plan writing and teaching their lessons to peers. While this is valuable practice, it is not the same as actually teaching children. In or
Most chemistry labs are of the "cookbook" style, the labs are a series of steps to perform in the alloted time and not much thought goes into the performance. The other option is to give students a problem to solve and then give them free reign to design a lab. Many of the students have no idea where to begin the design phase of a lab and end up just looking up a cookbook lab and trying to make it work. The other problem with the free reign option is safety and logistics with the laboratory prep. Is it a safe lab?