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The Design and Development of Organic Chemistry Module For College Students
The Design and Development of Organic Chemistry Module For College Students
The Design and Development of Organic Chemistry Module For College Students
Introduction
Barnett et al (2004) argued that the curriculum receives scant regard in current debates about
teaching and learning in higher inculcation but suggests that this may vicissitude in the context of quality
assurance mechanisms and benchmarking. In teaching there are many methods which are being used.
Some of them are assignment method, discovery method, lecture method, discussion method,
programmed learning, project method, field trip, case study method, demonstration method,
modularized instruction. Modular teaching is a new approach in classroom settings, for experience
taking in encounters in instruction also it has been getting much consideration. The system of taking in
modules has turned into a piece of all level of instructions. Teaching through module is a self - taking in
bundle managing one particular topic/ unit. It could be utilized within any setting helpful to the learner
and may be finished at the learner's own particular pace. Sufficient hypotheses further more practices
are accessible for the useful requisition of secluded educating in our classrooms. Consequently, a study
was directed so as to check the adequacy of modular teaching. Got information was investigated,
Introduction
The perception filter is a fundamental component of the Information Processing
Model. The perception of new information is dependent on what students already know:
the perception filter is thus controlled by the long term memory (Ausubel, 1968).
Ausubel (1968) explained how our prior knowledge and experiences depict what we can
learn in the future. Students can only perceive what is familiar to them, thus, if a new
concept is rejected at this stage, it may never pass through the working memory space
established frameworks in the long term memory, students are often forced to turn to
understanding. Many chemistry students cannot see any link between what they learn in
the classroom or the investigations carried out in the laboratory with their everyday lives
and the world that they live in. While, in fact, there are many examples of organic
compounds in every aspect of the students’ lives, such as foods, clothes, materials,
pharmaceuticals, etc., teachers often struggle to or don’t make students aware of these
due to their complexities (O’Dwyer, 2012). This is, perhaps, a contributing factor for the
chemistry as one of the most difficult areas of chemistry (Ratcliffe, 2002; Jimoh, 2005;
Schroeder and Greenbowe, 2008; Childs and Sheehan, 2009; O’Dwyer and Childs,
2011).
Gilbert (2010) used Paivio’s Dual Coding Theory, proposed in 1986, to describe
the process of visualisation. Paivio’s dual coding theory suggests two types of stimuli
exist, verbal and non-verbal, which are processed in different ways by sensory systems
that are common to both (Paivio, 1986). Verbal stimuli come in the form of speech while
non-verbal stimuli comes through as touch, sight, sound and taste. In this theory, the
pieces of verbal information, called ‘logogens’, are stored separately but are capable of
information are stored separately with the capability of forming their own associative
structures. The two types of associative structures can then be linked to form ‘referential
connections’
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Introduction
Framework of the study
Hypothesis
Scope and limitation
Significance of the study
Definition of terms
Chapter 2
Review of Related Literature
Review of Related Studies
Chapter3
Research Design or Research Methodology