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Item Chemical Sciences Research Output among the Universities in the State of Tamilnadu: A Scientometric Study(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pandian, R.Chemistry is a major subject of domain of basic sciences, the principles; the theories and applications have been involved for the use of mankind for generations in almost in all kinds of physical activities. It is also evident that a major stake of research is being carried out in chemistry and allied subjects, as one fourth of the publications output are being indexed by most popular scholarly literature across the globe, it is very much imminent for library and information professionals to identify the scholarly input growth and trend of the subject prevalence, the research applications, the research funding and opportunities, the research tools, methods, the organisations and the people engaged in research of chemical sciences and to forecast the same to the user community. The UniversitiesinTamilnaduhave the major stake towards contributing and orienting the academic research in India. Hence the study aimed at analysing and assessing the research output on chemical sciences from the State Government Universities of Tamilnadu through the publication output. The researcher has choosen Web of Science (WoS) database as the source of study and the study period is 1989-2014, The researcher has used the search string in the topic field “Chemistry” and Address field “Alagappa University”, “Annamalai University”, “Bharathidasan University”, “Bharathiar University”, “Madras University”, Madurai Kamaraj University”, “ManonanmaniamSundarnar University”, Mother Teresa University”, Periyar University”, and “Thiruvalluvar University” is used for data collection. The study found gradual growth of publication output over the years. Phenomenal growth is between 2011-2014. All the 5433 publications were received Global Citation Scores 51862. The literature published in 9forms of documentations. It is observed that its relative growth rate have shrunk gradually from 4.28 at 1989 to 8.61 in the year of 2014. Contrary to this, the Doubling time for publication of all sources of 0.19 research output has decreased from 1.17 in 1989 to 5.78 in 2014. The Collaboration research between Tamilnadu State Universities had 51862 number of citations across the globe; the top three countries contributed are USA, Japan, and South Africa. There are 33 subject categories in chemical research is being carried out, which is published in 351 journals, the major output from top three journals are Indian Journal of Chemistry section B (236), Tetrahedron Letters (214), Asian Journal Chemistry (194). The researcher also applied the relevance of bibliometric laws and made a Histrographical analysis for citations. There are 5437 number of authors were contributed this literature. The study shows that there were rich numbers of collaboration among the Indian and aboard.Item Future Perspectives of Chemistry Education Five Hundred Years after Western Colonization in Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Weerawardhana, A.; Ferry, B.; Brown, C.A.During five hundred years of western colonization, education systems in Sri Lanka evolved to mirror the traditional education systems of Britain. The teaching strategies employed by teachers and the structure of schools in Sri Lanka, reflected such a traditional, Anglo Saxon approach to pedagogy. In post-colonial Sri Lanka we believe that it’s time to move towards a different approach to pedagogy that more closely aligns with modern society in Sri Lanka and with the interconnected world in which we now live. This paper reports on the outcomes of a study that focuses on teaching in chemistry - in particular, the topic of chemical equilibrium. It discusses the influence of modern information and communication technology (ICT), how ICT allows teachers and students to work in different ways and the implications for teaching chemistry in Sri Lankan schools. Two studies were designed and conducted within New South Wales (NSW), Australia as models that might transfer to Sri Lanka. Study One involved five experienced chemistry teachers and forty five chemistry students in HSC classes. Study Two involved eight preservice science teachers and sixty year-eleven chemistry students. The initial trial of the commercial product SMV: CHEM® by experienced teachers in Study One revealed that they spent little preparation time on lessons as they were busy with timetables, syllabus content, and did not feel comfortable with computer-based technology. As a result, they relied on teacher demonstration to present the software. In Study Two, pre-service science teachers had the opportunity to unpack the resource elements within SMV:CHEM® and VisChem® software and consider the design of lessons that would engage a wider range of teaching strategies, including the use of familiar analogies, simulations, hands-on observation coupled with computer-based multiple representations. Pre-service teachers attempted to extend students’ understanding about chemical equilibrium (obtained from different representations) by applying the concept to a wide variety of everyday situations involving environmental systems that are in equilibrium.