KJM3050 – Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
This course is an introduction to chemistry education research and practice. How do we teach chemistry in a way that promotes learning and understanding? The course will cover central topics in the teaching of chemistry, with a special focus on aspects related to practical laboratory experiments.
Learning outcome
After completing?this course, you:
- Are familiar with chemistry education research as a subject area, and important concepts and theories within the field.
- Can prepare, carry out, and evaluate chemistry education based on knowledge of students? understanding of chemistry and motivation for the subject, and you can explain your choices with reference to chemistry education theory.
- Can use laboratory experiments actively to introduce students to chemical principles and practical laboratory techniques, and you know how experimental work can be used to improve learning.
- Are aware of important aspects related to health, safety, and the environment when teaching chemistry, you can handle equipment and chemicals in a safe manner, and perform risk evaluation of experimental work.
- Are aware of the switching between macro-, micro-, and representational level when teaching chemistry, and how you can vary your instructional methods and adapt them to the different aspects of the chemistry curriculum.
- Can reflect on the role of chemistry in society and the place of chemistry as a subject in the Norwegian education system.
Admission to the course
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.
The course has 10 places in total at KJM3050 and KJM4050. Teacher education students who have the course as a mandatory or recommended part of their education and master students with the course in their approved study plan will be given priority if there are more applicants than places.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
- KJM1002 – Introduction to Chemistry, or KJM1101 – Generell kjemi, or an equivalent course.
- HMS0501 – Safety and Physical Environment, HMS0502 – Positive Learning Environment, HMS0503 – Laboratory Safety, HMS0505 – Electricity Safety, and HMS0507 – Fire Safety
Recommended previous knowledge
KJM1111 – Organic Chemistry I or an equivalent course is strongly recommended. If you don?t have a background in organic chemistry, you must expect extra work with the course.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with KJM4050 – Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
Teaching
The course duration is one semester and the teaching consists of:
- 2 hours of lectures every week
- 3 hours of laboratory course.
The lectures will have an emphasis on student active forms of instruction, and you may be expected to prepare for class in various ways. You also have to prepare, carry out, and evaluate instruction with a focus on laboratory experiments.
The mandatory laboratory course, your teaching plan, the instruction itself, and the evaluation of your own instruction must be approved before you can take the exam
Approved laboratory course and passed instruction (all parts) are valid 6 semesters after the semester they were approved. After this period, you must complete those parts again to be able to sit for the final examination.
It is mandatory to attend the first lecture (including students on the waiting list). If you are unable to attend the first lecture, you must notify the Department of Chemistry before the start of the lecture, otherwise your course registration will be cancelled
Attendance at the laboratory course is mandatory. If you are prevented from meeting, you have to show documentation that you were legally absent (medical note from a doctor or similar).
The course will have a teaching break during the 4 weeks when teacher students have school practice in PROF3025 – Ledelse av elevers l?ring. This will be compensated by a somewhat higher workload for the remaining weeks.
As?the?teaching involves laboratory and/or fieldwork, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance.?Read about your insurance cover as a student.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
The exam consists?of three parts:
- Work submitted during the course, which counts 20 % towards?the final grade.
- The teaching project, which?counts 30 % towards?the final grade.
- Final oral exam?which counts 50 % towards?the final grade.
You must pass the final exam in order to pass the course.
This course has mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can take the final oral exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: KJM4050 – Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in Norwegian. You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or Englisk
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a?postponed exam at the beginning of the next semester.
New examinations are offered at the beginning of the next semester for students who do not successfully complete the exam during the previous semester.
We do not offer a re-scheduled exam for students who withdraw during the exam.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.