PART 5 Project-Based Experiments

Accepting the facts that the conventional expository laboratory has many problems associated with it, as well as that it is not an easy task to replace it entirely with inquiry-type practical work, Tsaparlis and Gorezi (141) proposed a modification of a conventional, one-semester, expository physical chemistry laboratory to accommodate a project-based component. Eight project-type tasks were used, mostly taken from articles in the Journal of Chemical Education, which is a rich source. The conventional experiments remained intact in this approach, being simply enriched with the project-based component. Students working cooperatively carried out both the conventional and the project parts in pairs for the conventional experiments, in groups of four for the project work. 

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