Collaboration and Guided Inquiry in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory

有机化学实验室的协作和引导探究(CGIOChem)项目正在通过创建、测试和评估强调结构化协作和引导探究的有机化学实验室调查来更新有机化学实验室。在这些实验室调查中，部分基于制药研究中使用的组合方法，学生既作为个人工作，也作为团队工作。学生单独研究不同但相关的反应，或者分析或合成不同但相关的分子。在参加了有指导的小组讨论他们的个人结果后，学生们作为一个团队，应用他们从个人调查中获得的知识，进行一项探究性挑战。实验室材料正在四年制大学和两年制大学环境中的小型有机实验室课程和大型多节有机化学实验室课程中开发、微观测试、修改和测试。CGIOChem的智力优势来自充分的证据，即以学生为中心的教学，如探究和合作，提高了学生在科学方面的成就和参与度，并帮助他们从新手发展为研究人员。CGIOChem正在评估基于这些教学方法的实验室材料如何具体影响有机化学学生。所开发的材料可适用于各种有机化学课程设置，包括其初步补充的螺旋有机化学课程。由独立的有机化学家评估师进行评估，评估学生对有机化学的理解和成绩，以及学生与有机化学和其他学习者的接触。更广泛的影响包括协作和指导性探究如何提高科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的保留率和STEM学位的完成。

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.