Current reform efforts in the chemistry classroom curriculum place an emphasis on the need for active learning.  Typically, active learning designs focus on students working collaboratively in small groups.  At our institution we teach in a large collaborative space, provide the students with whiteboards as a resource, and utilize the Chemical Thinking curriculum.  Here, we carry out systematic observation of student groups within the collaborative learning space A total of 10 student groups, containing four students each, were observed during a single semester.  We focus our analysis on how the nature of the task, and group dynamics affect the use of the provided whiteboard as well as how the whiteboard may affect the group dynamics and how students interpret the nature of a task when utilizing a whiteboard.

Investigating factors that affect how students use whiteboards during collaborative activities

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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