Assessment Data and Decision Making in Teaching

Finding avenues to collect and use data in our teaching parallel to the way we use data in research may be an important way to improve educational outcomes

Review of Nature of Science in General Chemistry Textbooks

This title is an example of a new series of works called “SpringerBriefs” that have been published as eBooks by Springer. This particular eBook is from SpringerBriefs in Education, a series with nine titles currently listed. The essential concept of the overall series (which has 47 content areas, including “molecular science”) is to provide a venue that lies between new research published in an archival journal and large-scale literature reviews. In chemistry education, there really is no journal dedicated to reviews, so this series may serve an important role. The article “Nature of Science in General Chemistry Textbooks” fits this model quite well, both synthesizing some important concepts in the pedagogy related to the nature of science and presenting research about how this field is presented in general chemistry textbooks

Adaptation of an Instrument for Measuring the Cognitive Complexity of Organic Chemistry Exam Items

Experts use their domain expertise and knowledge of examinees’ ability levels as they write test items. The expert test writer can then estimate the difficulty of the test items subjectively. However, an objective method for assigning difficulty to a test item would capture the cognitive demands imposed on the examinee as well as be assignable by any domain expert familiar with the examinee group. One such instrument for assigning objective complexity of general chemistry exam items has already been reported. A revised instrument for assigning objective complexity of organic chemistry exam items is presented including the reliability and validity studies of the rubric

Letter to Philander Chase

Rev. Thomas Holme re-sends his request for the bills toward James George\u27s tuition at Jubilee College.https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2241/thumbnail.jp

Letter by Thomas Holme

Thomas Holme gratefully receives a donation for James George\u27s scholarship, but is still short on funds.https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2283/thumbnail.jp

Letter to Philander Chase

Thomas Holme proposes a newspaper exchange rather than frequent letters, as the post has become unreliable.https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2322/thumbnail.jp

Letter to Philander Chase

Thomas Holme laments his failure to keep up correspondences. He is grateful that the U.S.A. and Great Britain are once again at peace and hopes it will mean continued donations for Jubilee College and the payment of the tuition of James George.https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2278/thumbnail.jp

Letter to Philander Chase

Reverend Thomas Holme asks on behalf of the Bishop that Philander Chase send 100 pounds to Mrs. George. He regrets that Tractarianism has been so popular in the United States as well as in England, but belives that it will ultimately die out.https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2239/thumbnail.jp

Letter to James Ramsey

Summary of Philander Chase\u27s banking accounthttps://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2248/thumbnail.jp