Renee Cole
Renee received a B.A. in Chemistry in 1992 from Hendrix College and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Oklahoma in 1998. She then went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to work as a post-doctoral fellow with John W. Moore. While at Wisconsin, she focused on chemical education research projects, studying the impact of computer-based homework and tutorials on student achievement and attitudes. She was also actively involved with the New Traditions project. She is currently a professor of chemistry at the University of Central Missouri. She has been actively involved with the physical chemistry on-line (PCOL) consortium and involved with the physical chemistry guided inquiry materials. Her research has focused on the impact of innovative materials on student learning and attitudes. She is co-PI with Juliette Lantz on a recently funded NSF grant to develop POGIL materials for analytical chemistry. She is a PI on a collaborative grant to study how students develop understanding of physical chemistry concepts in a POGIL classroom. She is currently a member of the steering committees for the POGIL project grant and for the POGIL in large class FIPSE grant.
Selected Publications
Philip R. Burkholder, Renee S. Cole, and Gordon H. Purser, “Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Reinforce Student Understanding of Intermolecular Forces,” Journal of Chemical Education,accepted.
Renee S. Cole and Christopher F. Bauer, “Assessing Your Implementation of POGIL,” in Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (ACS Symposium Series), Editor: Richard Moog, submitted.
Diane M. Bunce and Renee S. Cole, “Why a book on Chemical Education Research? in Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research (ACS Symposium Series), Editors: Diane M. Bunce and Renee S. Cole, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Christopher F. Bauer, Renee S. Cole, and Mark F. Walter, “Assessment of Student Learning: Guidance for Instructors,” in Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research (ACS Symposium Series), Editors: Diane M. Bunce and Renee S. Cole, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Renee S. Cole and John B. Todd, "Effects of web-based multimedia homework with immediate rich feedback on student learning in general chemistry" Journal of Chemical Education, 80 (11), 1338-1343 (2003).