TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanns, Jolanda
A1  - Keller, David
T1  - The development, use, and evaluation of digital games and quizzes in an introductory course on organic chemistry for preservice chemistry teachers
JF  - Journal of chemical education / Division of Chemical Education, Inc., American Chemical Society
N2  - Due to the COVID pandemic, the introductory course on organic chemistry was developed and conducted as anonline course. To ensure methodical variety in this course,educational games and quizzes have been developed, used, and evaluated. The attendance of the course, and therefore also the use of the quizzes and games, was voluntary. The quizzes'main goalwas to give the students the opportunity to check whether they had memorized the knowledge needed in the course. Another goal was to make transparent which knowledge the students shouldmemorize by rote. The evaluation shows that the students hadnot internalized all knowledge which they should apply in severaltasks on organic chemistry. They answered multiselect questions in general less well than single-select questions. The games shouldcombine fun with learning. The evaluation of the games shows that the students rated them very well. The students used thosegames again for their exam preparation, as the monitoring of accessing the games showed. Students'experiences with usingelectronic devices in general or for quizzes and games have also been evaluated, because their experience could influence thestudents'assessment of the quizzes and games used in our study. However, the students used electronic devices regularly and shouldtherefore be technically competent to use our quizzes and games. The evaluation showed that the use of digital games for learningpurposes is not very common, neither at school nor at university, although the students had worked with such tools before. Thestudents are also very interested in using and developing such digital games not only for their own study, but also for their future work at school
KW  - Organic Chemistry
KW  - Second-Year Undergraduate
KW  - Humor
KW  - Puzzles
KW  - Games;
KW  - Internet
KW  - Web-Based Learning
KW  - Distance Learning
KW  - Self Instruction
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00058
SN  - 0021-9584
SN  - 1938-1328
VL  - 99
IS  - 4
SP  - 1715
EP  - 1724
PB  - American Chemical Society
CY  - Washington
ER  -