Dr Dino Spagnoli (University of Western Australia) is visiting the School of Life & Environmental Sciences this upcoming Friday 29th November, at Waurn Ponds campus, to present a Chemistry Education seminar. It might be on interest to you.
Please see the details below. No need to RSVP.
Preparation, Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: Probing the Affective Domain of Learning within the Chemistry Undergraduate Laboratory
Date: Friday, 29th November, 11am-12pm
Room: WP, ka4.207
VMP: 36958
Dino Spagnoli
Dr PhD Bath
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science, School of Molecular Sciences
University of Western Australia
The chemistry undergraduate laboratory is a complex learning environment.1 To achieve meaningful learning in the laboratory a student should be constructing knowledge within the three domains of learning: cognitive (thinking), psychomotor (doing) and affective (feeling).2 In this presentation, I will be focusing on three aspects of the affective domain, in relation to how students prepare for the laboratory, and identifying the factors of chemistry laboratory anxiety and self-efficacy. I will describe the resources that we have developed, implemented and evaluated to improve student preparation and self-efficacy. The online interactive pre-laboratory activities were developed using Mayer’s principles for e-learning.3 The talk will conclude by providing recommendations for academics who wish to develop online resources with the aim of increasing students’ chemistry laboratory preparation and self-efficacy.
- Seery, M. K.; Agustian, H. Y.; Zhang, X., A Framework for Learning in the Chemistry Laboratory. Israel Journal of Chemistry 2018, 58, 1-9.
- Novak, J. D., Human Constructivism: A Unification of Psychological and Epistemological Phenomena in Meaning Making. Journal of Constructivist Psychology 1993, 6, 167-193.
- Mayer, R. E., Using multimedia for e-learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 2017, 33 (5), 403-423.