Influence of Class Notes on the Academic Performance of Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Students

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 13 Issue 4 (2008) pp 257-259

Influence of Class Notes on the Academic Performance of Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Students

Isabella Garcia and Bimal K. Banik*

The University of Texas-Pan American, Department of Chemistry, Edinburg, TX 78541, banik@utpa.edu
Received November 12, 2007. Accepted June 16, 2008.

Published online: 27 July 2008

Abstract. An investigation of the role of providing advance class notes on academic performance of undergraduate chemistry students was performed over a three-year time span. The results are promising and suggest that chemistry student performance increases significantly if advance class notes are provided.

Key Words: Of Special Interest; general chemistry

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: banik@utpa.edu)

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