The relationship between students’ achievement of organic laboratory course with understanding about organic subjects including green chemistry

Abstract

Students’ achievement of laboratory organic courses always relate with their understanding of organic subjects in a whole course. Students learn from their experiences in laboratory and their understanding of basic organic concepts to help them synthesize problems. This study aims at students’ achievement of organic laboratory courses relate with their understanding of a whole organic subjects using descriptive method. The respondents of this research were students from chemistry education department from two different states universities in Indonesia (Bandung and Jayapura). The research use the result of student final grade of laboratory course compare with students’answers of synthesis organic problems, organic basic concepts and synthesis technique as the data. Therefore we were using a correlation statistic to analyze the data. We also have questionnaires to know students perceptions about the green chemistry. It was analyze using a correlation statistics.We found significant relationship between students’ achievement of organic laboratory courses with their understanding of basic organic concepts and their ability in synthesizing organic compounds. Inversely, for the result of synthesis techique show there is no relation with the students’ achievement of organic laboratory courses. Futhermore we found that student have a few information about green chemistry.