Evaluating a College-Prep Laboratory Exercise for Teenaged Homeschool Students in a University Setting

We devised a half-day laboratory exercise for a group of 10th grade homeschooled students enrolled in an honors-level high school general chemistry course organized by a collective of homeschooling families associated with local Christian churches. Anecdotal evidence suggested that the students met...

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Published inJournal of chemical education Vol. 93; no. 5; pp. 870 - 873
Main Authors Hercules, Daniel A, Parrish, Cameron A, Whitehead, Daniel C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Easton American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc 10.05.2016
Division of Chemical Education, Inc and ACS Publications Division of the American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
Subjects
Chemistry
Christians
Churches
College students
Experimentation
Grade 10
High School Students
Home education
Home Schooling
Honors Curriculum
Laboratory Experiments
Learning
Organic chemistry
Outreach Programs
Pretests Posttests
Science Experiments
Science Instruction
Science Laboratories
Secondary School Science
Secondary school students
South Carolina
Student attitudes
Students
South Carolina
Laboratory Instruction
High School/Introductory Chemistry
Aqueous Solution Chemistry
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Summary:We devised a half-day laboratory exercise for a group of 10th grade homeschooled students enrolled in an honors-level high school general chemistry course organized by a collective of homeschooling families associated with local Christian churches. Anecdotal evidence suggested that the students met the learning objectives of the exercise. The influence of the exercise on the students’ perception of laboratory experimentation was assessed quantitatively by means of a brief pre- and post-encounter Likert-scale survey.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00733