Dual Credit
Transitioning a
college chemistry
course to high school
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.
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 fiftythree students earned college credit.
Stark Education Partnership
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.
Stark Education Partnership
Today’s 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.
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 200809 enrollments of 1,294. From an initial
65 students during the summer of 2006,
HSBDC last year impacted an estimated
1,300 students.
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.
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.
The challenge
 High school class has
the same time frame
as a college class 5
days @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
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.
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?
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 --> __NaF + __BeCl2
2. __FeCl3 + __Be3(PO4)2 --> __BeCl2 + __FePO4
3. __AgNO3 + __LiOH --> __AgOH + __LiNO3
4. __CH4 + __O2 --> __CO2 + __H2O
5. __Mg + __Mn2O3 --> __MgO + __Mn
Answers
1.2,1,2,1
2.2,1,3,2
3.Balanced
4.1,2,1,2
5.3,1,3,2
Students reaction to a
Dual Credit Course
Haley:
The intro was easy and material I knew from
before but then:
It got harderI 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.
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.
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 didn’t put in the time you couldn’t cut it.
The labs were easy but the reports you
had to think and remember everything you
did to understand them.
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.
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 wasn’t all.
checked but if you didn’t do it you had
trouble with the tests.
I didn’t 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.
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
5/22/11