Physical chemistry teaching strategies

Teaching Physical Chemistry in Disadvantaged Contexts Challenges, Strategies and Responses... 

This finding suggests that reform-based teaching strategies would yield more positive student attitudes toward physical chemistry. 

This book definitely does not attempt to teach specific synthetic procedures, reactions, or strategies. Only rarely will you be asked to predict the products of a particular reaction. This book also does not attempt to teach physical organic chemistry (i.e., how mechanisms are proven or disproven in the laboratory). Before you can learn how to determine reaction mechanisms experimentally, you must learn what qualifies as a reasonable mechanism in the first place. Isotope effects, Hammett plots, kinetic analysis, and the like are all left to be learned from other textbooks. 

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