These lessons, which run in Windows, are available in Special Issue 16, Fourth Edition, of the Journal of Chemical Education: Software. They are described in the JCES section at the back of the July 2000 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education, where you will find an order form. These may also be found at the JCES Web site, jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft.
Here is the index page, from which you may go to any lesson.
Notice that there is also an introductory lesson, which shows how to move about in a lesson, explains the key and mouse conventions used consistently in all lessons, and introduces the various facilities, such as help, data tables and a calculator, which are available on-screen.
The lessons are interactive Socratic dialogues, in which a student progresses by answering questions. Most lessons end with comprehensive review quizzes, which give scores recorded in a dataset. Random-number generators drive the questions and quizzes, so questions never repeat identically. Consequently students must learn rather than memorize, and each lesson remains useful for review.
These lessons are especially useful for students in more advanced courses who may have missed or forgotten fundamental introductory material.
Updated July 24, 2000