Spacing, Retrieval, and Testing: Using Digital Tools to Enhance Learning in General Chemistry
Join Professor Niva Tro of Santa Barbara Community College for a discussion on leveraging education research to improve outcomes.
Professor Niva Tro, Santa Barbara Community College
This webinar explores three robust education research findings and demonstrates how to use digital tools to apply them in General Chemistry, thereby promoting better student outcomes. First, Professor Niva Tro discusses the spacing effect: long-term retention is enhanced by spacing learning over time rather than delivering it all at once. Second, he covers the retrieval effect: learning is enhanced by actively recalling information rather than passively studying it. Third, he addresses the testing effect: students do better on an exam when they take a pretest that covers similar topics.
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Dr. Nivaldo J. 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.
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