Jodye I. Selco

My research has been focused upon Chemical Education. We have been studying the effectiveness of instructional methods and curriculum on the learning success of students. I have been working with Rialto USD to develop "Common Laboratory" experiences for students at each grade. These experiments are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and all involve doing science to learn science. Now that these experiments are being used district-wide, we need to examine how well the students are learning from these experiences. 

I have also been involved in Physical Chemistry research; as an experimentalist I have examined the spectroscopy, photochemistry, and kinetics of small organic molecules (e.g. pyridine). Most recently we investigated natural products as a source of compounds that could be used as sunblock.