General, organic, and biological chemistry (CHE-100) is a survey course in chemistry primarily for students in the health sciences. The focused audience of this course provides an excellent opportunity for creating class activities tailored to student interests, while posing the challenge many non-major courses face of capturing student attention and motivating learning. To this end, a variety of active learning activities have been developed to engage students both in and out of the classroom, to provide early feedback, and promote engagement in the course. As CHE-100 is predominantly taken by 1<sup>st</sup> year pre-nursing students, these students also begin to develop study habits that they will employ in future classes. Thus, the in class practice activities, the weekly out of class activities, and the four in class review activities model good study habits, such as regularly checking understanding of course material. Here, efforts to improve student engagement and build positive study habits are via frequent formative assessments are presented.

Encouraging engagement via formative assessments in a GOB chemistry course

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