Gloria Proni, Elise Champeil

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Assessment of Students Likeability of the
Clicker and Wiley Plus Technologies in
Organic Chemistry

• Gloria Proni, Elise Champeil
• CUNY IT Conference - 2008
• December the 5th, 2008

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• Unlike history or philosophy, chemistry cannot
  be profitably be read chapter by chapter but must
  be vigorously attacked with a dozen sharp pencils
  and a ream of inexpensive paper close at hand.
  When information is used to solve problems, it
  rapidly becomes parts of your knowledge.
  (http//web.chem.ucla.edu/harding/course_philosop
  hy.html)
• Students need to fully immerse in chemistry and
  get plenty of practice
• recitation
• homework

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• but .
• due to the large class size it is difficult to
  correct homework and give feedback to the
  students in a timely manner (within 24 hours)
• and to avoid

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• Wiley Plus
• Automate the assigning and grading of homework
  problems and quizzes
• Context-sensitive help for students in the form
  of direct links to the online text, hints,
  solutions, and tutorials right from the homework
  problems.
• online grade book to track the progress and
  performance of students work.

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Students who have completed the organic
chemistry course in the Spring of 2008 have been
asked to complete a survey on SurveyMonkey.com

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• Some of the comments
• It was a great tool to use to enforce the
  lessons
• It was good. I failed Chem 201 first then I
  passed with the help of Wiley Plus. This program
  ROCKS.
• It was an excellent learning experience. I
  especially enjoyed the interactive class quizzes
  which helped our teacher to access our strengths
  and weaknesses real-time and offer help where
  needed.
• I loved Wiley Plus! My friends from other
  classes that were not fortunate to have access to
  Wiley Plus were so jealous.

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• Conclusion
• The majority of the students surveyed declared
  that Wiley Plus was an useful educational tool
  that facilitate the learning process
• Clickers are great on every aspects (see more in
  the next presentation)
• Acknowledgement
• John Jay College students who has participated in
  the survey
• Student Technology Fee for supporting the
  Clickers and ChemDraws initiatives
• CUNY and the Sloan Foundation Grant for
  supporting the development of online education

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