CHEDWednesday, 31 August 2005

8:30 AM-11:45 AM Renaissance Washington -- Room 2, Oral
Choosing and Using the Chemistry Textbook
Organizer:Richard Petersen
Organizer, Presiding:Mark Freilich
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMThe chemical education resource shelf: Step one in the selection of a textbook
Harold H. Harris
9:00 AMDilemmas in choosing a text for organic chemistry
Sapna Gupta
9:25 AMOne year with the ACS textbook Chemistry
Dan Dill, Morton Z. Hoffman, Thomas D. Tullius
9:50 AMIntermission
10:00 AMSelecting a chemistry textbook: What educational research can tell you
Michael J. Sanger
10:25 AMChoosing textbooks: Default or design?
Lucy Pryde Eubanks
10:50 AMWhat do we know about how students use textbooks in General Chemistry?
Norbert J Pienta
11:15 AMPanel Discussion: Whither (wither) the textbook?

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The 230th ACS National Meeting, in Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1, 2005