What is ChemSkill Foundations?
ChemSkill Foundations generates personalized problem sets for introductory level chemistry students.
Each student encounters over 1000 individually generated questions over the course of the 18 units matching most introductory chemistry texts.
Student answers are checked immediately, and fully worked-out solutions are presented in response to wrong answers.
Records of student performance are saved on the disk for use by the instructor.
Instructors and ChemSkill Foundations:
Chemistry instructors use ChemSkill Foundations to
assign significant amounts of homework without the burden of grading, which is handled automatically.
On a typical campus using ChemSkill Foundations, over 80% of the students do the homework on a consistent basis.
Valuable lecture time thus need not be devoted to countless repetitions of basic problem-solving techniques.
Students and ChemSkill Foundations:
Chemistry students use ChemSkill Foundations to learn many basic chemical concepts, as well as how to solve chemical problems.
When they make mistakes, they immediately see complete solutions, and they can repeat assignments until they achieve the score they want.
On each repeat, the types of problems are the same, but the quantities and/or chemical constituents are different, so repetition provides valuable problem-solving practice.
The Problem Generator:
Central to the design philosophy of ChemSkill Foundations is the concept of problem generation, as opposed to problem storage.
Rather than stored problems, ChemSkill Foundations is built around stored problem types, and each personalized problem set for a given student is generated from arrays of chemical constituents and concentrations or quantities using random numbers.
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