@article{oliver-hoyo_allen_hunt_hutson_pitts_2004, title={Effects of an active learning environment: Teaching innovations at a research I institution}, volume={81}, ISSN={["1938-1328"]}, DOI={10.1021/ed081p441}, abstractNote={This paper describes a new approach for teaching general chemistry that combines lecture and laboratory into one seamless session and incorporates instructional methods supported by research-based findings. The results of a study that compared two instructional formats, conventional passive lecture and the student-centered, highly collaborative format known as cAcL2 (concept Advancement through chemistry Lab–Lecture), are also presented. Factors carefully controlled in this study include content material, time of day, time on task, and test format, scheduling, and grading. The results of the analysis of variance and the evaluation of the means conclude that the cAcL2 instructional method had a positive effect on student performance in an introductory chemistry class.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION}, author={Oliver-Hoyo, MT and Allen, D and Hunt, WF and Hutson, J and Pitts, A}, year={2004}, month={Mar}, pages={441–U2} }
 @article{allen_oliver-hoyo_2002, title={Fingerprinting: Commercial products and elements}, volume={79}, ISSN={["0021-9584"]}, DOI={10.1021/ed079p459}, abstractNote={Correlation between commercial bar codes and element emission spectra gives rise to an activity that relates the familiarity of everyday things to a chemical concept. The analogy between bar codes found in everyday items and absorption-emission spectra emerges from the fact that both contain information in the form of lines and those lines identify a specific product or element. Bar codes are most commonly read by computerized scanners, which obtain a reflectance pattern from the line widths of a bar code. Emission spectra are similar to these reflectance patterns. In the activity entitled "Fingerprinting", students interpret bar code patterns and use the properties of bar code symbols to identify the properties of emission spectra.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION}, author={Allen, D and Oliver-Hoyo, MT}, year={2002}, month={Apr}, pages={459–461} }