What can be learned from laboratory activities? Revisiting 32 years of research

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1020-1025

  Abraham, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical education research; Constructivism; First year undergraduate general; High school introductory chemistry; Inquiry based discovery learning; Laboratory instruction; Learning theories; Student centered learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960247064     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100774d     Document Type: Review

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1. Michael Abraham, David Ross Boyd Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma, received the 2010 American Chemical Society Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry on March 23, 2010, in San Francisco, CA. This paper is adapted from his award address. For more information, see http://webapps.acs.org/findawards/detail.jsp? ContentId=CTP-004484 (accessed Jun 2011).
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