Collaboration and Guided Inquiry in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory

有机化学实验室的协作和引导探究

• 批准号: 1044549
• 负责人: Susan Hershberger
• 金额: $ 19.75万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044549&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaboration; Guided; Inquiry; Organic; Chemistry

The Collaboration and Guided Inquiry in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory (CGIOChem) project is renewing the organic chemistry laboratory by creating, testing, and assessing organic chemistry laboratory investigations that emphasize both structured collaboration and guided inquiry. In these laboratory investigations, partially based upon combinatorial methods used in pharmaceutical research, students work both as individuals and as a team. Individually, students investigate different but related reactions or analyze or synthesize different but related molecules. After participating in guided, small group discussion of their individual results, students work as a team on an inquiry challenge applying their knowledge from individual investigations. The laboratory materials are being developed, micro-tested, revised, and tested in both small organic laboratory courses and large multi-section organic chemistry laboratory sessions, in both four-year university and two-year college environments. The intellectual merit of CGIOChem emerges from ample evidence that student-centered pedagogies such as inquiry and collaboration enhance student achievement in and engagement with science and help them progress from novices to researchers. CGIOChem is evaluating how laboratory materials based on these pedagogies specifically impact organic chemistry students. The materials developed may be applicable to various organic chemistry course settings including the spiral organic course it is initially complementing. Evaluation by an independent organic chemist evaluator assesses student understanding and achievement in organic chemistry and also student engagement with organic chemistry and fellow learners. The broader impacts include how collaboration and guided inquiry enhance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) retention and STEM degree completion.

在有机化学实验室（CGIOChem）项目的合作和引导式探究是通过创建，测试和评估有机化学实验室调查，强调结构化合作和引导式探究更新有机化学实验室。在这些实验室调查中，部分基于药物研究中使用的组合方法，学生既作为个人又作为团队工作。个别地，学生研究不同但相关的反应或分析或合成不同但相关的分子。在参加了指导，小组讨论他们的个人结果后，学生们作为一个团队，运用他们从个人调查中获得的知识进行调查挑战。实验室材料正在开发，微观测试，修订，并在两个小的有机实验室课程和大型多节有机化学实验室会议，在四年制大学和两年制大学的环境中进行测试。CGIOChem的智力价值来自充分的证据，即以学生为中心的探究和协作等学习方法可以提高学生的科学成就和参与度，并帮助他们从新手发展为研究人员。CGIOChem正在评估基于这些化学原理的实验室材料如何特别影响有机化学学生。所开发的材料可适用于各种有机化学课程设置，包括它最初补充的螺旋有机课程。由独立的有机化学家评估学生的理解和有机化学的成就，也与有机化学和同学的学生参与。更广泛的影响包括如何协作和引导查询提高科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）保留和STEM学位完成。