Designing a Flashcard with Knowledge Pills for Learning to Solve Chemistry Exercises

Autor/inn/en	Cancela, Angeles; Sanchez, Angel; Maceiras, Rocio
Titel	Designing a Flashcard with Knowledge Pills for Learning to Solve Chemistry Exercises
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 37 (2012) 4, S.366-374 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
DOI	10.1080/03043797.2012.697128
Schlagwörter	Chemistry; Teaching Methods; Engineering Education; Higher Education; Models; Universities; College Students; Educational Environment; Internet; Tests; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Learning Processes; Student Motivation; Multimedia Materials; Multimedia Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Chemie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ingenieurausbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Analogiemodell; University; Universität; Collegestudent; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Learning process; Lernprozess; Schulische Motivation; Multimediales Lernen
Abstract	Nowadays, universities tend to promote more learner-centred learning, creating a more interactive and motivational environment for students and teachers. This paper describes an expanded framework to help chemical educators to construct a quiz for solution of chemical exercises in their courses. The novelty of this contribution is that the proposed tool combines a flashcards-based method with knowledge pills. The framework has three levels: definition of problem for a teacher; the quiz; use of the quiz for the student. The tool could provide predefined or automatically generated exercises of chemicals. Students could practise where and whenever they like via the Internet. Their answers would be registered automatically by the tool and if the students have doubts about any of the questions, they can see a knowledge pill with a teacher explanation about the solution of the exercise. Moreover, they would be able to check their scores from the tests. Once the flashcards were designed and produced, the opinions of other lecturers and students about them were considered. Both groups considered that the tool could be useful to improve the students' learning process. For future work, this design will be used with the students and its effectiveness will be analysed. (Contains 5 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10