Freshman chemistry

Collaborative Teaching Across Freshman Information Technology and Chemistry Courses

College SCienCe TeaChing F aculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, often look for potential collaborations between departments to provide the cadets (students) with a broader sense of how topics interrelate in their courses. Because our curriculum is very structured, with 30 core courses in a 40to 43-course program, students are generally enrolled in the same cours...

Teaching Robotics to Freshman Students

This paper describes the experience of teaching robotics at the freshman level, from the conception of the project through the offering of a computer science seminar in robotics, having a two-fold goal: the opening of a new area of interest for students and the integration of computing and technology programs at Cameron University.

The "freshman fifteen" (the "freshman five" actually): predictors and possible explanations.

OBJECTIVE To conduct a prospective, longitudinal study examining weight fluctuation and its predictors before and during the first year of college. DESIGN Men (n = 266) and women (n = 341) enrolled at Dartmouth College (age range: 16 to 26; body mass index range: 15.0 to 42.9) provided self-reports of weight and height and completed measures of self-esteem, eating habits, interpersonal relati...

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Automatically Scoring Freshman Writing: A Preliminary Investigation

In this work, we explore applications of automatic essay scoring (AES) to a corpus of essays written by college freshmen and discuss the challenges we faced. While most AES systems evaluate highly constrained writing, we developed a system that handles open-ended, long-form writing. We present a novel corpus for this task, containing more than 3,000 essays and drafts written for a freshman writ...