The Interactive Anonymous “Must-have” Quiz: A Simple Method to Enhance Students Concept Learning in Organic Chemistry Course

Abstract

The learning of basic chemical concepts is important for students starting their first year organic chemistry program. Students will be exposed to specific chemistry vocabulary and employ them throughout the chemistry learning journey especially when engaging with peers and course instructors. For students majoring in chemistry, basic chemical concept understanding is useful when they enroll into advanced organic chemistry course. Besides that, the introductory organic chemistry course is also a pre-requisite for other degree programs, such as biology, microbiology, pharmacy, dentistry, medicine and so on. For these reasons, an understanding of the basic chemical concepts is important irregardless of program specialization of these scientific fields. The ability to comprehend the concepts and relate it to the tasks or problems given requires a deeper understanding of a concept.2 Hence, the research of concept teaching has been the focus of many educators for the past decades.