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technologies, new skill sets from undergraduate students that perhaps could help us modify things? Is the need for more "Sometimes I think we are so focused on thinking about STEM professionals sufficient to make us rethink how we what is wrong with American science we do not take a step address undergraduate chemical education?
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The average annual growth rate in degree students in science is only about 6 percent and that output of science and engineering publications of eastern number has been steady since the late 1970s. It is only at Asian countries far exceeds that of the United States, Europe, the level of graduate degrees that there is an increase in the and Japan (see Table 2-1)
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advisory group that makes science policy recommendations Matthew Tarr, from the University of New Orleans, com- to the President, and PCAST's activities and positions on mented that he has seen a dramatic increase in the number science education and workforce. During the Obama Adminof chemistry majors and students taking general chemistry istration, PCAST has produced several reports focused on courses over the past 3 years and asked if Killewald had more STEM education and workforce: Prepare and Inspire: K-12 recent data on national trends.
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will not have one career for 40 years but rather will need a PCAST's 2012 Transformation and Opportunity report broad set of STEM skills that will allow them to adapt to focuses on how to make sure that the benefits of STEM new opportunities and even undergo retraining at some point education extend to the entire American economy to create in their working lives. Gates contended that this shift will the possibility that the American Dream will be extended require that the current pipeline model of STEM education to another generation, said Gates.
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tors and radically change the environment in which they In fact, while the number of students receiving certified function. The key will be to figure out how to engage this bachelor's degrees has risen slightly since 1950, the number technology in a way that leverages what individual teachers of overall chemistry degree graduates has more than tripled do to improve STEM education.
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The overall philosophy of the percent also offered foundation and in-depth courses online. guidelines is not to be overly prescriptive in terms of specific Over half of the surveyed programs felt that online courses course requirements or laboratory experiences, but instead to were inappropriate, though about a quarter of the programs provide a scaffold on which programs develop a curriculum believed that the online venue could serve a role in providing that is appropriate for their students.
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distribution of questions in the section on the chemistry and One attendee asked McCoy if she was surprised at the physical foundations of biological systems will be 30 percent strong negative response to online courses. She answered general chemistry, 25 percent organic chemistry, 15 percent that the negative view could reflect the conservative nature first-semester biochemistry, 25 percent introductory physics, of the chemistry community, or it may also reflect a misin- and 5 percent biology.
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Shulman said that he sees no reason that a chemistry is to create two different second-semester organic school or program has to make a change in its curriculum chemistry classes, one focused on bioorganic chemistry for for pre-med students. However, there are opportunities and pre-med and other biology-oriented students, and the other challenges for the chemistry community that are laid out in course emphasizing mechanism and synthesis for chemistry Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (AAMC/HHMI majors and chemical engineers.
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He asked, "Will medical schools have the ability ing results on successful undergrad chemistry education and desire to adjust their admission requirements to do away interventions, including content and pedagogy." She noted, with course requirements and reflect competencies almost too, that active learning strategies have been perfected for the completely? " Other questions are whether undergraduate chemistry community and that there continues to be a signifiprograms will be motivated to map courses onto pre-medical cant research effort to better understand student learning in competencies, and whether the new MCAT will success- the context of undergraduate chemistry education research.
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Although the CPT is known for its 1994-1999 that not only introduced new ways of teaching emphasis on chemistry content for chemistry majors, it has undergraduate chemistry but also generated a huge cadre had little impact on the pedagogy for nonchemistry and nonof faculty who were familiar with undergraduate education science majors. Another problem she pointed to was the fact in chemistry and led to the development of a much larger that the ACS website only points to the society's own work chemistry education research field, she added.
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McCoy the career options available for people with STEM degrees. answered that chemistry departments need to develop a Thomas Holme, from Iowa State University and director physical plant that has the flexibility to allow for all of the of ACS Exams Institute, pointed out that the 2013 fresh- different types of teaching modalities and teaching styles, man class will be the first cohort that has been subjected to such as online access to material outside of the confines nonstop standardized testing since fourth grade as a result of a lecture hall.
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