Pencil鈥揚aper Learning Should Be Combined with Online Homework Software

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：David B. Smithrud ; Allan R. Pinhas
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 8, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：92
• 期：12
• 页码：1965-1970
• 全文大小：354K
• ISSN：1938-1328

文摘

For the past eight years, we have used online homework software as a pedagogical tool for undergraduate students (almost all are second-year students) learning organic chemistry. Being strong proponents of homework, we were surprised to find that about half of the students who complete 90% or more of the online homework assignments received less than 50% of the available points on examinations, even though comparable problems were given. Students who combined traditional pencil鈥損aper problem solving with the online software performed better than students who solely used the online homework package. Our findings contribute to the ongoing debate between pencil鈥損aper and computer learning with the recommendation that they should be combined to provide students with the ultimate learning tool.