Student Feedback

Following are representative responses to a few questions from our student feedback. The responses are quoted from feedbacks administered in the first semester classes in 92 thru 95. They are in no particular order.

Responses to many questions have varied significantly depending on the major and the lab instructor. The lab appears to have had a strong effect on most students, their perception and performance in the course. We feel that complaints about lab instructors dimished somewhat over the time with better implemention of teamwork and inclusion of more details in lab procedures.

How did the course affect your perception of the role of science in everyday life?

This course got my feet wet and may have been my hardest course and my lowest grade but I can hardly wait till my next chemistry class.

It is amazing how it affected it. In more ways than I can mention.

I can see science in everything.

Attention to details.

Make me stop and look at certain things in different ways.

It showed me that we use science a lot more than I thought.

I notice it more in everyday life now!

I respect scientists!

It made me see how important science is.

It made me think more about what's in the things I use in every day life.

I started noticing commercials that actually had chemistry in them, and how chemistry is a part of every day life.

I found it much more interesting than I'd anticipated.

What did you learn in this course that will be important or useful in your professional life?

I am sure I have learned more than I know is useful. Conversions, and a lot of the other calculations I'm sure will be very useful.

Just about everything; I plan to be a nurse so a lot of it is useful.

How to work in a group.

Periodic table and different substances, and how they react in different experiments.

General basic chemistry.

Basic concepts of chemistry.

Safety.

Everything.

Acids and bases.

Moles.

Lewis structures.

How to balance equations.

Compounds and stuff.

Organic chemistry.

How to put effort into something you are not interested in.

In Physical Therapy I will need some of this but my mother is a also a Pharmacist and through this course I can appreciate the work she does even more.

Chemistry has little to do with my profession but it was fun.

Everything I learned will be helpful in my profession [food and nutrituin].

I need a certain basis of chemical knowledge.

How to do experiments.

Did the lab experience contribute to your understanding of the course material?

Yes. [repeated by most students]

Yes!

Hands on is very practical.

Some at times, more at others.