[CEER Internal List 112] STEM Education Seminar: Studio Chemistry at CalPoly: An Examination of Student Outcomes

[Mark Urban-Lurain]

CREATE Science Seminar Series 
 
Studio Chemistry at CalPoly: An Examination of Student Outcomes
Alan Kiste
 
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm
 
252 Erickson Hall Michigan State University
 
Abstract: Twenty years ago, a major curriculum revision at California
Polytechnic State University led to the implementation of an integrated
lecture/laboratory (studio) experience for our engineering students taking
general chemistry.  With the construction of our new Center for Science and
Mathematics, completed in Fall 2013, the opportunity arose to construct four
purpose-built studio classrooms to house nearly our entire general chemistry
sequence for all students and to perform a detailed study of the effects of
the entire ecology of the studio experience on student success.  Data from
content knowledge pre- and post-tests, learning attitudes surveys, and
student course evaluations shows positive effects on student performance,
the development of more expert-like learning attitudes, increased student
engagement, and increased student-instructor interactions vs. our previous
separate lecture and laboratory instruction.  Our data also show our new
peer Learning Assistant program increases student engagement while also
having positive impacts on the Learning Assistants themselves.
 
Co-hosted by Lyman Briggs College and CREATE for STEM Institute
 
If you are interested in meeting with Alan Kiste or joining him for lunch or
dinner, please contact Zach Nusbaum (nusbaumz at msu.edu) for available times.
 
 
Mark Urban-Lurain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Engineering Education Research
Undergraduate Studies Office
College of Engineering
Michigan State University
 
428 S. Shaw Lane
1410 B Engineering 
East Lansing, MI  48824
 
517-432-2108
 
urban at msu.edu
www.msu.edu/~urban
 
 
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