Teaching an Introductory Organic Chemistry Class for High School Students

A dual-enrollment course was designed in which the elementary concepts of organic chemistry were introduced to high school students. Students were assessed at the end of the term using an American Chemical Society (ACS) standardized exam. The same exam was given to corresponding traditional on-campu...

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Published inJournal of chemical education Vol. 97; no. 12; pp. 4303 - 4310
Main Authors Zuidema, Daniel R, Stimart, John A, Jian, Zixin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Easton American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc 08.12.2020
Division of Chemical Education, Inc
American Chemical Society
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Academic standards
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College Science
Dual Enrollment
Educational tests & measurements
High School Students
Organic Chemistry
Science Instruction
Science Tests
Scores
Secondary School Science
Secondary school students
Students
Teaching methods
Undergraduate Students
First-Year Undergraduate/General
High School/Introductory Chemistry
Testing/Assessment
Organic Chemistry
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Summary:A dual-enrollment course was designed in which the elementary concepts of organic chemistry were introduced to high school students. Students were assessed at the end of the term using an American Chemical Society (ACS) standardized exam. The same exam was given to corresponding traditional on-campus sections of the same class taught by the same professor. Intriguingly, when dual-enrollment students’ performance was compared with the performance of the traditional on-campus students studying the same content, no statistical difference was detected. Moreover, the dual-enrollment students have scored at a level significantly higher than the nationwide averages advertised by the Examinations Committee of the ACS.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00968