POGIL-PCL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory) was developed in order to improve student learning and encourage students to be active learners in the laboratory.  This presentation will give an overview of the structure of past and future workshops designed to create guided inquiry physical chemistry experiments and to facilitate the adoption of  these experiments in the laboratory. The final experiment structure, which included two 'data-think' cycles, was shaped by the community of workshop participants. The presentation will also include the results of a recent survey designed to assess the workshop model.  Survey results will be compared to workshop assessment collected immediately following the workshops. The workshop model and the results of the survey will be discussed in light of change theory, which describes the process by which instructors adopt and implement new teaching methods.  We will also discuss how we are building a community of instructors who collaborate on generating and using POGIL-PCL experiments.

Assessing the effectiveness of POGIL-PCL workshops

249th National Meeting (2015)

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