POGIL in college prep chem: A systematic approach to POGIL lesson implementation

CHED 262

John Picione, jpicione@uwm.edu, Kristen Murphy, kmurphy@uwm.edu, and Thomas A. Holme, tholme@uwm.edu. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 3210 N Cramer Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211
POGIL is an effective teaching method for many levels of chemistry from high school to physical chemistry. The use of POGIL has also been demonstrated to be effective in large class sizes. We investigated the use of POGIL in a preparatory college chemistry course with large classes. We tested the effectiveness of POGIL and found instances in which POGIL is useful and instances in which it is not. We will present our method for tailoring an experiment to test the implementation of POGIL and the methods used in determining which specific topics were aided by the use of active learning.
 

Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
8:30 AM-11:35 AM, Monday, March 26, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N231, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007