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| | LABS -- Laboratory Assessment Builds Success |
 | | Historically, chemistry educators have often justified these investments by two related arguments: that doing chemistry is an integral part of learning chemistry, and that the acquisition of chemical knowledge, skills and attitudes somehow emerges from asking questions related to the activity in the laboratory. |
 | | They did, however, spread chronologically across most of a years general chemistry teaching at the secondary school level and they did feature various patterns of laboratory activity including computer interfacing, microscale techniques, and a variety of hands-on, minds-on efforts to make important concepts of chemistry very understandable to high school students. |
 | | Psychomotor outcomes include all the manipulative, hands-on, minds-on skills chemistry students are called upon to cultivate and use, ranging from reading a buret meniscus to suitable precision, to decanting the supernatant liquid from a precipitate, to adjusting a gas burner to a specified temperature range, to graphing data. |
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