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Conducting reflective, hands-on research with advanced characterization instruments: a high-level undergraduate practical exploring solid-state polymorphism

Conducting reflective, hands-on research with advanced characterization instruments: a high-level undergraduate practical exploring solid-state polymorphism
Conducting reflective, hands-on research with advanced characterization instruments: a high-level undergraduate practical exploring solid-state polymorphism
An undergraduate practical exercise has been designed to provide hands-on, instrument-based experience of advanced characterization techniques. A research experience approach is taken, centered around the concept of solid-state polymorphism, which requires a detailed knowledge of molecular and crystal structure to be gained by advanced analytical techniques normally considered as the preserve of a research facility. Powder and single crystal diffraction techniques are primarily required and implemented via the unique approach of the students themselves using benchtop instruments dedicated to teaching, as opposed to more complex and difficult to access research instruments. Furthermore, the manual instructions for performing the practical are delivered via an adapted Electronic Laboratory Notebook system where, for each specific aspect of the practical, students note their intentions, actions, observations, and inferences. Assessors can access the notebooks and provide targeted online feedback for each individual section. Evaluation of the approach is based on interviews and surveys with the first cohort of 65 students that performed the practical
0021-9584
1-28
Coles, Simon
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Mapp, Lucy
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Coles, Simon
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Mapp, Lucy
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Coles, Simon and Mapp, Lucy (2015) Conducting reflective, hands-on research with advanced characterization instruments: a high-level undergraduate practical exploring solid-state polymorphism. Journal of Chemical Education, 1-28. (doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00071).

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An undergraduate practical exercise has been designed to provide hands-on, instrument-based experience of advanced characterization techniques. A research experience approach is taken, centered around the concept of solid-state polymorphism, which requires a detailed knowledge of molecular and crystal structure to be gained by advanced analytical techniques normally considered as the preserve of a research facility. Powder and single crystal diffraction techniques are primarily required and implemented via the unique approach of the students themselves using benchtop instruments dedicated to teaching, as opposed to more complex and difficult to access research instruments. Furthermore, the manual instructions for performing the practical are delivered via an adapted Electronic Laboratory Notebook system where, for each specific aspect of the practical, students note their intentions, actions, observations, and inferences. Assessors can access the notebooks and provide targeted online feedback for each individual section. Evaluation of the approach is based on interviews and surveys with the first cohort of 65 students that performed the practical

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Accepted/In Press date: 12 October 2015
Published date: 5 November 2015

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Local EPrints ID: 383745
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/383745
ISSN: 0021-9584
PURE UUID: 88636a43-33f9-463d-9deb-81dc415ec965
ORCID for Simon Coles: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8414-9272

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Date deposited: 20 Nov 2015 14:19
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:01

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Author: Simon Coles ORCID iD
Author: Lucy Mapp

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