by Nguyen Xuan Truong and Huynh Gia Bao
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Self - studying activities that are to develop self-learning ability for students, first of all, we need to build the dynamics, proper learning needs for students to create the self-learning motivation. The origins of learning motives can be externally required by the school, family, and society.ect. can also appear from internal such as: from the request of awareness, from the desired needs of interest to society, from excitement or belief and from the passion of the students. The student motivation can be divided into two basic groups: motivation for excitement in perception and motivation in learning.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 200-203. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-7
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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by Vu Phuong Lien, Tran Thi Van Trang and Tran Trung Ninh
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Experiential learning aims to enable students to make use of learning tools and materials, and apply their previous understanding to deductive reasoning process to discover new knowledge and solve learning problems. This type of learning also enhances the collaboration among students in their learning tasks so as to develop students’ collaborative problem solving. Based on the research of the structure of CPS of high school students by Patrick Griffin & Esther Care (2015) and Kolb’s (1984) experiential learning cycle, research group proposes the assessment toolkit, theme building process, and teaching process in teaching properties of nonmetals to develop students’ CPS through experiential learning. In order to examine the efficiency of the proposed processes, researchers apply the toolkit and processes to teach two lessons to 50 students in high school of education science. The results illustrate positive changes in students’ CPS after two lessons, which suggests high level of reliability of the toolkit and proposed processes.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 190-199. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-6
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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by Nguyen Thi Kim Hanh
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Developing qualities and capacities for students is the goal of Vietnamese education in 21st Century in accordance with the “4.0 technology era”. This article introduces some modern methods and techniques that have been studied and used effectively in the teaching for develop students’ capacities of chemistry in high schools in Buon Ho town, Dak Lak province, Vietnam, such as project teaching, contract teaching, experiential teaching, hands-on teaching, integrated teaching, teaching with mind map, teaching in team collaboration. This has raised interest among for students and has resulted in higher academic achievement than those not used the above-mentioned teaching methods. In particular, they have developed individual, professional and social competence those are language ability, creative thinking capacity, problem solving ability, computational competence; cooperation capacity, capacity to apply chemical knowledge into real-world.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 184-189. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-5
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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by Nguyen Xuan Truong and Nguyen Tri Ngan
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Generalization is the activity of thinking which is used to associate, organize the phenomena of the same type, and to have the same general structure. There are two generalizations: generalization of experience and generalization of reasoning: (1) Generalizing experience helps individuals acquire elementary concepts and is implemented through comparisons to separate the common and similar relationships of phenomena. (2) Generalizing theory (or generalizing content) to acquire scientific concepts made through analysis to separate the intrinsic properties, the normative relationships of things Phenomenon, conceptualization, is a form of objective reality reflection in thought. Both are defined by a series of sequential operations, called the logic of the general concept of the group, of the species, of the things and phenomena and of a single concept of things, and specific, individual phenomenon. In this article, we will present a generalized thinking diagram for students to solve organic chemistry exercises in high school.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 180-183. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-4
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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by Pham Minh Hung, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Nguyen Nhu An and Pham Le Cuong
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Vietnamese higher education is undergoing radical and comprehensive reform in line with the general trend of higher education in the world. In innovated aspects of the Vietnamese higher education, innovating the governance model towards university autonomy and accountability is seen as a key step. On the basis of clarifying the theoretical issues of accountability, the article proposes some solutions to improve the efficiency of accountability of public universities in Vietnam: Review, supplement and readjust the legal documents on accountability of the university; Carry out accountability in various forms; Form the accountability culture in universities.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 175-179. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-3
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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by Arijit Das
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In this review article, formulae based on innovative mnemonics have been discussed to create interest and remove phobia of students in the field of chemical education. Educators can use these numerous mnemonics in their teaching style in the classroom lectures after discussing conventional methods to make chemistry intriguing. Here, I have tried to focus some time economic mnemonics by including thirty-three (33) new formulae in the field of chemical education. It will encourage students to solve multiple choice type questions (MCQs) at different competitive examinations in a time economic ground. This review article emphasizes chemical education in the light of a variety of mnemonic techniques to make it metabolic, time economic and intriguing for students because the use of mnemonics in classroom lectures is an essential tool to become a distinguished educator.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 154-174. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-2
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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by Cao Cu Giac and Ly Huy Hoang
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This article introduces an electronic coursebook for experimental practical methods in teaching chemistry in attempt to develop pedagogical students’ competence. Four principles, six steps in designing and two ways to use this electronic coursebook for developing pedagogical students’ competence are introduced. Results of pedagogical experiments in teaching the module “Practical experiment about teaching method in chemistry” for third-year students of the courses in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 at some universities of education in Vietnam have shown the efficiency and the feasibility of using electronic coursebook for pedagogic students in chemistry. The participants of those pedagogical experiments were asked to use the electronic coursebook before chemical experiments in the laboratory were conducted, following four steps: (i) Participants answered objective test questions on the skills to perform experiments in the laboratory, safety notes and successes of the experiment; (ii) Participants carred out simulations of experiments in the syllabus, and observed the setting up apparatuses of laboratory and the sequence of experiments; (iii) Participants carried out experiments in small groups in the laboratory under the supervision of instructors; and (iv) Teachers asked participants to do the available tests in the electronic coursebook to assess their learning outcomes.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2018, 6(4), 145-153. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-6-4-1
Pub. Date: September 25, 2018
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