Chemistry Department SLO Improvement Plan S’09
CHEMISTRY 211 Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
1. Demonstrate proficiency in drawing Lewis structures and determining the characteristics of alkanes and alkenes; naming alkanes,
cycloalkanes and alkenes and drawing Newman projections of alkanes.
Measure: Exam #1
2. Demonstrate proficiency in predicting the stability of carbocations, writing the reaction mechanisms and formulas of the products of the
reactions of alkanes and alkenes and determining the stereochemistry of chiral alkanes.
Measure: Exam #2
3. Demonstrate proficiency in determining the characteristics of alkynes and naming and writing the reaction mechanisms and formulas of the
products of the reactions of alkynes, using IR spectroscopy in structure determination and predicting if a reaction proceeds by an SN1 or an
SN2 reaction mechanism.
Measure: Exam #3
4. Demonstrate proficiency in determining if a reaction proceeds by an E1 or an E2 reaction mechanism; naming, writing the reaction
mechanisms and formulas of the products of the reactions of alcohols, ethers, epoxides and organometallic compounds; calculating the
reaction energies of the halogenation of alkanes and using UV spectroscopy in structure determination.
Measure: Exam #4
Chemistry 211 lecture rubric
85-100% above expectations
65-84% meets expectations
1-64% below expectations
0% did not complete
