Chemistry Placement Pilot (2019)

*Yes, students can start the ALEKS program later this spring. We will start taking student agreements in February.

Please have students contact chemistry@montgomerycollege.edu

Thanks,

Laura

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The Chemistry Department has started a pilot project to give students an alternative preparation option (instead of CHEM099) for CHEM131.  ALEKS in an adaptive online learning platform that customizes a learning experience for individual students to master. The Math Department has been using ALEKS, so some students are familiar with it from math. We are able to offer this to students free of charge at this time.  Students receive a course access code that will give them 12 weeks of access to the online course.  The topics in the ALEKS course align with the CHEM099 course content.  For a student to be eligible for CHEM131 in Spring 2019, they must complete the course with 85% mastery by Jan 14.  We are giving students overrides so they can register for CHEM131 while they are working through the program. 

Our recruitment of students originated at the Rockville campus through the Counseling Department and RV Assessment center only because of the faculty member involved and administrative aide support are at Rockville but it is open to any student across the college.  We just had an information session at TP this afternoon and there is another one in RV this Friday.  I am working with the chemistry department at Germantown to schedule an information session at your campus, hopefully for next week. 

We recently advertised the ALEKS program to targeted students (students that withdrew from CHEM131 this term and currently registered CHEM099 students) through a blast email, so it sounds like this is how this student learned of the opportunity.  She can contact the RV chemistry department at chemistry@montgomerycollege.edu for more information.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.