Dual Credit

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Dual Credit

• Transitioning a college chemistry course to high
  school

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What is Dual Credit?
Students earn dual credits for classes that meet
both high school and college requirements. Dual
credit courses are taught in high school, at
local colleges and through distance education.
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The beginning of Dual Credit in Stark County
Dual Credit HB 115 Pilot Summer 2007 Instead of
using a team teaching model, six local and
regional institutions of higher education (The
University of Akron, Malone College, Mount Union
College, Kent State Stark Campus, Stark State
College of Technology and Walsh University), and
school districts in Stark, and neighboring Wayne
and Columbiana Counties (educational service
delivery region 9) developed nine separate
courses taught by high school teachers qualified
as adjuncts. Fifty-five students enrolled and
fifty-three students earned college credit.
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Dual Credit HB 119 2007-8 Throughout the 2007-08
academic year, local districts and local colleges
continued to use high school teachers qualified
as college adjuncts to teach dual credit courses
to 408 students. The program will continue in
2008-09.
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Todays dual credit class enrollments
High school based dual credit (HSBDC) is a
course offered through a collaborative agreement
between an institution of higher education and a
school district. A student may earn both high
school and college credit in an HSBDC course
taught by a high school teacher who qualifies to
become a college adjunct on a high school campus.
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The growth of HSBDC courses in Stark County, Ohio
has been explosive. During the 2009-10 academic
year, HSBDC courses were offered across all 17
Stark County school districts for the first time.
Enrollments in such courses reached 2,460 nearly
doubling the 2008-09 enrollments of 1,294. From
an initial 65 students during the summer of 2006,
HSBDC last year impacted an estimated 1,300
students.
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This report looks at data from enrollment
records, grades, surveys and focus groups
conducted by the Stark Education Partnership
throughout the year.. Indications are that HSBDC
is beginning to produce substantial returns 1.
HSBDC has added another early college credit
earning opportunity for an estimated 13 of the
junior and senior Stark County cohort or 6.5 of
all high school students, compared to 5
nationally or 2 in Ohio.
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2. Over 92 of Stark County HSBDC students
successfully earned 6,366 hours of college credit
at a grade of C or above. 3. The financial
benefit to Stark County families and students may
range between 860,000 to 5,000,000 (textbooks
excluded) depending on where students transfer
credit.
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The challenge

• High school class has the same time frame as a
  college class 5 days _at_44min each 3 hrs.and we
  have a 2.5 hr. of lab time a week.
• Has more interruptions then the college class
• Books and materials are free

• The college class meets for a 3 hr lecture and 2
  hr lab
• Except for holidays college classes normally do
  not have students in and out for tests, field
  trips and assemblies.
• Students buy their materials

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Activity

• To understand the complexity of the college
  course vs. a high school course.
• To relate a simple activity to the high school
  student in a college class.
• You will have 5 minutes to complete the following
  quiz.

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1.What is the biggest planet in our solar
system? 2. What is the chemical symbol for the
element oxygen? 3. What is the name of the long
appendage that hangs from an elephants face? 4.
True or false? DNA is the shortened form of the
term Deoxyribonucleic acid? 5. The highest
mountain on earth is? 6. What is the name of the
closest star to the earth? 7. What is the name of
the element with the chemical symbol He? 8. The
fear of what animal is known as
arachnophobia? 9. Pure water has a pH level of
a around? 10. The molten rock that comes from a
volcano after it has erupted is known as
what? 11. True or false? Yogurt is produced by
bacterial fermentation of milk. 12. What is the
name of the part of the human skeleton which
protects our brain? 13. Is the compound HCl an
acid or base? 14. True or false? The fastest land
animal in the world is the zebra. 15. How many
bones do sharks have in their bodies? 16. What
famous scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize
in Physics for his work on theoretical physics?
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The previous activity was easy in 5 minutes -now
you have 1 minute for the following activity
Here are some practice problems. The solutions
are in the section below this one. 1. __NaCl
__BeF2 --gt __NaF __BeCl2 2. __FeCl3
__Be3(PO4)2 --gt __BeCl2 __FePO4 3. __AgNO3
__LiOH --gt __AgOH __LiNO3 4. __CH4 __O2 --gt
__CO2 __H2O 5. __Mg __Mn2O3 --gt __MgO __Mn
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Answers

1. 2,1,2,1
2. 2,1,3,2
3. Balanced
4. 1,2,1,2
5. 3,1,3,2

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Students reaction to a Dual Credit Course
Haley The intro was easy and material I knew
from before but then It got harder- I had to
study more. There was more information learned
than normal classes, the tests were more
challenging. There were concepts I had never
learned like pH. The labs were fun and easy for
the most part but interpreting data took some
time. .
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Jim The class is longer then regular
classes. The test were longer and harder. The
labs were different than general chemistry and I
had to write a lot more lab reports. If you miss
a day you can get behind I had to study more.
The books are bigger.
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Jenna We were expected to know a lot more than a
high school class and we worked faster than a
high school course also. Math was important for
most of the chapters we went over. I had to study
more in class and at home, if you didnt put in
the time you couldnt cut it. The labs were easy
but the reports you had to think and remember
everything you did to understand them.
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India You were expected to know more. Ms. Zarges
does not go over all the material in depth so you
need to study and should know some chemistry
before you take the course. It moves much faster
and there is less time to obtain A LOT of
information. Really have to study-some things are
taught in class but you need individual study
time to learn all the material. It looks more at
practical uses-the labs are not just for your own
knowledge but also for the real world
applications.
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Billy We were required to do more work that was
more complex than a normal high school chemistry
class. The labs were a lot more in depth and the
lab practical's were hard because we did so many
before the test it was hard to remember all the
details. You have somewhat more freedom on the
homework since it wasnt all. checked but if you
didnt do it you had trouble with the tests. I
didnt have any chemistry background coming in
from another area and at the beginning it was
hard for me to grasp the formulas and how to set
them up.
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Thank you for coming to the presentation and if
you have not taught a dual credit class I highly
recommend it Donna Zarges Adjunct for Stark
State College of Technology and Science teacher
at Alliance High School