Discussions on Improving the Teaching Quality of Fundamental Chemistry Experiment Course

Abstract

Improving the teaching quality of fundamental chemistry experiment (FCE) course is one of the important ways to cultivate the creative talents in the universities and colleges. In consideration of the present problems in the teaching of FCE course, several measures are put forward in this paper, which involves: increasing the studentsunderstanding of importance of FCE course and interests in learning FCE course, cultivating the students' study style of combining theory with practice, implementing the mode of open experiment teaching and establishing the scientific experimental assessment system. The implementation of these measures greatly inspires the students' motivation of autonomous learning and improves the teaching quality of FCE course. polymer materials and engineering, environmental engineering and water supply and drainage. At present, there exist several problems in the teaching of FCE course as follows. (ⅰ) The new students lacked the basic knowledge and skills of chemistry experiment operations. Many of the students came from the rural high schools and did not take the chemistry experiment course when they studied in the high schools. They are not familiar with the names and use methods of the basic glassware. (ⅱ) Part of the students are not really interested in the experiment and do not pay attentions to the course. They are not able to do good preview before experiment and carefully do their experiment during the course. (ⅲ) Part of the students could not use the theoretical knowledge learned in the theory teaching to guide their experiments. After the experiments, they could not still completely understand the purpose and principle of the experiment and clearly figure out what they have learnt from the experiment course. (ⅳ) Most of the experiments are verification ones and done based on the textbook.The studentsautonomous learning atmosphere has not been yet established. (ⅴ) Existing evaluation system is not perfect and reasonable. The evaluation is conducted only based on the grade of ordinary times and grade of final experimental examination. These problems seriously affect the teaching quality of FCE course. Several measures are suggested to deal with these problems in order to increase the teaching quality of FCE course in this paper.