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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 16
(2011) pp 12-17
Using Online Homework in Physical Chemistry
Cynthia M. Woodbridge
Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United
States Military Academy, Building 753, Room 400, West Point NY 10996-1905,
cynthia.woodbridge@usma.edu
Received August 26, 2010. Accepted September
23, 2010.
Published: 4 February 2011
Abstract. Students perceive Physical Chemistry to be a difficult course. One approach to reducing student anxiety is to provide them more opportunities to do problems they are likely to encounter on examinations. Daily online homework was used to increase the students’ practice with problems and incorporate conceptual questions into homework. Although students did approximately four times the problems with online homework than with pencil-and-paper homework, the averages in courses using pencil-and-paper versus online homework were comparable. However, students who did daily online homework assignments felt, based on free-form comments in an online survey, that it helped them keep up with the material and prepared them for examinations.
Key Words: In the Classroom; physical chemistry; course-management software
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: cynthia.woodbridge@usma.edu)
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