STEM Ed Announcement: Student

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Education Institute presents:

Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 4 PM
Hasbrouck Lab, Room 138, University of Massachusetts
Amherst

Martina Nieswandt
 School of Education, UMass
  
 "Snapshots of Undergraduate Students' Interest during Analytical
 Chemistry Laboratory Activities"
  
 This qualitative study explores whether undergraduate students
 interest can be aroused in a mandatory analytical chemistry class
 that generally is considered of little to no interest. Assuming
 that certain features of a learning situation arouse a persons
 interest regardless of personal preferences (interestingness or
 non-interest) for the situation this study asks: (1) Do a series of
 analytical chemistry laboratory activities, which are part of a
 required undergraduate analytic chemistry course, arouse students
 situational interest? (2) If so, what stimuli promote situational
 interest and how does it develop throughout the semester?
 

The program begins at 4 PM; refreshments at 3:45 PM.
Parking available at the Campus Center Garage.
For more information, contact STEM Ed Institute at 545-0734
 

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