After attending the cCWCS workshop “Active Learning in Organic Chemistry,” I spent a lot of time reworking my courses to include more active learning activities and encouraging students to take ownership of their own learning. A new active learning activity based on exam wrappers was implemented in Fall 2018 in Organic Chemistry 2. Exam wrappers are assignments given to students based on a returned exam. Traditional exam wrappers include a handout with that ask students to self-assess their preparation for the exam, their exam performance, and what they will do differently to prepare for the next exam. A simplified version of an exam wrapped was implemented, where students could rework missed questions for partial credit by explaining why they got the question wrong and giving the correct answer.

Exam wrappers in organic chemistry

2019 Spring National Meeting

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