Spacing, Retrieval, and Testing: Using Digital Tools to Enhance Learning in General Chemistry
Join Dr. Nivaldo Tro for a discussion on the effectiveness of certain pedagogical strategies and their implementation in general chemistry.
Dr. Nivaldo Tro, Santa Barbara City College
Education research demonstrates the effectiveness of certain pedagogical strategies such as the spacing effect, the finding that long term retention is enhanced by learning that is spaced out over time rather than massed. Other strategies include the power of retrieval, and pretesting in student retention. The digital tools we now have available enable us to easily implement these strategies into our general chemistry courses in ways that were not possible before. In this session, Professor Tro will discuss these effects and their implementation in general chemistry.
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About the speaker
Dr. Nivaldo Tro, Santa Barbara City College
Nivaldo Tro has been teaching college chemistry since 1990 and is currently teaching at Santa Barbara Community College. He received his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University for work on developing and using optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules to and from surfaces in ultrahigh vacuums. He then went on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he did postdoctoral research on ultrafast reaction dynamics in solution.
Dr. Tro has been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, the Research Corporation, and the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin adlayer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces. He lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and their four children. In his free time, Dr. Tro enjoys mountain biking, surfing, and being outdoors with his family.
