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Learning To Search in Ten Easy Steps: A Review of a Chemical Information Course
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The University of Pennsylvania‘s course in chemical information is mandatory for all first-year graduate students and consists of a ten-week series of classes covering the major sources in chemical information. At the end of the course, all students take a final exam covering all resources learned. The classes are taught in an electronic classroom in which students can follow along with the demonstrations on their individual workstations; to further enforce techniques learned, the students must complete an assignment on the resource of the day before leaving class. A student passes the course upon meeting these criteria while receiving a score of at least 70% of all possible points: completing one homework assignment for each resource learned, taking a final exam based on all of the resources, and creating a guide to the literature on a subject the student chooses. Student response to the class has been very positive, and average exam scores and total scores for the 2002 students were very high. Information from course syllabi and sample assignments are also included.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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