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- Title
Are We Wasting our Chemistry Students' Time?
- Authors
Lucas, Loren T.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study to determine the present practice in high school and college chemistry teaching. There were twofolds of this study. First the present tendency in chemistry teaching in both high school and college was proposed to find and second, the extent of overlapping between high-school and college chemistry courses, was sought to determine. In this study analysis of textbooks were done to determine the word space devoted to each principle, each type of factual material and to each type of mathematics by each textbook. The textbooks which served as the basis of this study were the six most commonly used high-school textbooks and the six most commonly used college textbooks of chemistry in the United States. The study found that in high-school chemistry over one-half of the student's time were wasted in the memorization of factual material and the need of mathematics is very low in either college or high-school chemistry students.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHEMISTRY education; PHYSICAL sciences; CHEMISTRY; TEXTBOOKS; COLLEGE students; HIGH schools; MATHEMATICS; SECONDARY education
- Publication
Science Education, 1933, Vol 17, Issue 3, p236
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730170313