Nowadays, there is increasing interest in global sustainability, and thus, university students
would like to know how human actions affect the health status of our planet. This is mainly …

53 September/October 2008 tested. The goal is to make connections between observations
and principles”(Farrell, Moog, and Spencer 1999, p. 572). The descriptions of guided inquiry …

Consensus does not exist among chemists as to the essential characteristics of inquiry in the
undergraduate laboratory. A rubric developed for elementary and secondary science …

In this paper, we suggest strategies for instructors to use to prepare students for inquiry-
based activities. Instructors should ensure that appropriate content material has been …

A simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly undergraduate laboratory experiment is
described in which students use visible spectroscopy to determine a numerical value for an …

Acid–base titration concepts and experiments are ubiquitous, yet challenging, aspects of the
general chemistry curriculum. Most general chemistry courses include at least one acid …

To be literate in modern society no longer means that one can simply read and write. In our
rapidly changing world where information is available with a few taps of our fingers, critical …

This review explores the dramatic changes that have taken place in the organic chemistry
laboratory course over the last two to three decades. The most significant changes have …

Abstract Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), an online program that purportedly helps students
develop as writers and critical thinkers, is being increasingly used by science educators …

Fay and Bretz, to help teachers select the most appropriate inquiry activities, provide a rubric
that can be used to compare experiments and suggests trajectories for structuring inquiry …