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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (1990)
Get PDFThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
Developing a survey instrument to evaluate tertiary chemistry students' attitudes and learning experiences
No full textNew Zealand tertiary institutions, like others worldwide, have experienced a decline in science and chemistry enrolments in recent times as students seek other career paths that they perceive to be more lucrative. In a previous article we described a qualitative study of the learning experiences of students enrolled in a first year chemistry course at a New Zealand tertiary institution. Researchers in education and science education have two choices of methodology, a qualitative or a quantitative approach, and each possesses advantages and disadvantages. Qualitative studies typically use resource intensive data gathering techniques such as interviews. These studies are useful in that they allow researchers to study issues of interest in great depth and, for example, allow investigators to probe for underlying reasons about students' views for abstract scientific concepts. However, because qualitative studies are more labour intensive, they typically involve only small numbers of participants, which in the minds of many researchers and teachers results in a lack of generalisability. In other words, it is not necessarily clear what implications the findings hold in other contexts. In contrast, quantitative studies involve larger numbers of participants. By the judicious use of statistical analysis, researchers can investigate changes and trends, and extrapolate their findings to a large (or target) population. However, whilst the results from quantitative studies are more generalisable, they are often less detailed. Hence researchers are confronted with a trade-off situation in which they must choose between the depth of understanding provided from qualitative studies, versus the generalisability of a quantitative approach: because of this dilemma, increasingly researchers employ a mixed methodology approach. In this paper we describe a quantitative study that complements previous qualitative work. We report on the development of a questionnaire that investigates tertiary level learning experiences of chemistry students, along with their attitude toward chemistry and chemistry self-efficacy
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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (Fall/Winter 1991)
No full textThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries: From Exploring Molecular Recognition to Systems Chemistry
Get PDFDynamic combinatorial chemistry (DCC) is a subset of combinatorial chemistry where the library members interconvert continuously by exchanging building blocks with each other. Dynamic combinatorial libraries (DCLs) are powerful tools for discovering the unexpected and have given rise to many fascinating molecules, ranging from interlocked structures to self-replicators. Furthermore, dynamic combinatorial molecular networks can produce emergent properties at systems level, which provide exciting new opportunities in systems chemistry. In this perspective we will highlight some new methodologies in this field and analyze selected examples of DCLs that are under thermodynamic control, leading to synthetic receptors, catalytic systems, and complex self-assembled supramolecular architectures. Also reviewed are extensions of the principles of DCC to systems that are not at equilibrium and may therefore harbor richer functional behavior. Examples include self-replication and molecular machines.
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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (1984, No. 7)
Get PDFThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (1989, No. 11)
No full textThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (1983, No. 6)
Get PDFThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (1987, No. 10)
No full textThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
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Department of Chemistry Newsletter (1985, No. 8)
No full textThe newsletter of the Department of Chemistry, published once or twice a year, highlights people, events, and facilities. Content includes brief articles on new faculty hires, faculty and staff retirements, obituaries, major facilities and equipment upgrades, scholarship and award recipients, historical features, alumni updates, news from the Mallet Library, and a message from the Chair.Chemistr
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