Supplemental Learning in the Laboratory: An Innovative Approach for Evaluating Knowledge and Method Transfer.

ABSTRACT: The Multi-Rule Quality Control System (MRQCS) is a tool currently employed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate and compare laboratory performance. We have applied the MRQCS to a comparison of instructor and computer-led pre-laboratory lectures for a supplemental learning experiment. Students in general chemistry and analytical chemistry from both two- and four-year institutions performed two laboratory experiments as part of their normal laboratory curriculum. The first laboratory experiment was a foundational learning experiment in which all the students were introduced to Beer-Lambert's Law and spectrophotometric light absorbance measurements. The foundational learning experiment was instructor-led only, and participant performance was evaluated against a

SUBMITTER: Carter MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6094388 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature