Implementing the Science Writing Heuristic: An Advanced POGIL Workshop

科学写作启发式(SWH)是一种结合了探究、协作和反思性写作的教学技术，为学生和教师在化学实验室进行有效的探究活动提供了一种结构。过去十年的研究清楚地表明，使用标准的实验室实验和标准的教学方法对大多数学生对化学基本概念的理解增长相对较小。该项目满足了国家对化学教师和化学助教的需求，以便在学术实验室有效地融入主动学习技术和策略。该项目举办讲习班，培训来自两年制和四年制院校以及大型大学的化学教师和教学助理，并正在开发基于网络和CD/DVD的材料，使教师能够在不参加讲习班的情况下进行培训。重点培养研究生很重要，因为许多人将成为未来的化学教师，他们构成了许多机构实验室的大部分教师。SWH工作坊作为高级POGIL工作坊在全国范围内提供。POGIL是一种成熟的、被广泛采用的引导性询问方法。SWH和POGIL都通过这个项目得到了加强。在这项建议中开发的材料允许教师在他们的实验室中实施先进的指导性探究教学技术，并辅之以反思写作。POGIL现有的基础设施被用作管理中心，用于广告研讨会、招募参与者、制作资源，以及从显示出实施SWH能力的参与者中招聘未来的研讨会负责人。书面材料和视频中介绍的战术、技术和战略是基于国家科学基金会和其他机构确定的最佳做法。他们也是基于对学习和教学策略有效性的研究，这证明了这个项目的智力价值。教师和助教被要求在他们使用SWH方法授课之前和之后评估模块的有效性。该项目为大学化学教师和助教提供了示范模式，通过使用培训模块来加强普通化学实验室的教与学。在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，华盛顿大学西雅图分校、加州大学伯克利分校和爱荷华州立大学开发了不同的教学技术和资源，这些技术和资源被结合在一起，并作为这项工作的基础。

Chemistry (12)The Science Writing Heuristic (SWH), an instructional technique that combines inquiry, collaborative work, and reflective writing, provides a structure for both students and teachers to do effective inquiry activities in the chemistry laboratory. Research over the past decade clearly indicates that teaching using standard laboratory experiments and standard teaching approaches results in relatively small increases in most students' understanding of fundamental concepts in chemistry. This project meets a national need for chemistry faculty and chemistry teaching assistants to effectively incorporate active-learning techniques and strategies in the academic laboratory. This project conducts workshops to train chemistry instructors and teaching assistants, from two- and four-year institutions and from large universities, and is developing web and CD/DVD based materials which enables instructor training without workshop attendance. The focus on training graduate students is important because many will become future chemistry instructors and they constitute the bulk of instructors for laboratories in many institutions. The SWH workshops are offered nation-wide as advanced POGIL workshops. POGIL is a well established and widely adopted approach to guided inquiry. Both SWH and POGIL are being enhanced through this project. Materials developed in this proposal allow instructors to implement an advanced guided-inquiry teaching technique in their laboratories that is supplemented by reflective writing. The existing infrastructure of POGIL is used as administrative hub for advertising workshops, enrolling participants, production of resources, and recruitment of future workshop leaders from participants who show an ability to implement the SWH. The tactics, techniques and strategies that are featured in the written materials and videos are based on best practices as identified by the NSF and other agencies. They are also based on research on learning and the effectiveness of instructional strategies which testifies to the intellectual merit of this project. Instructors and teaching assistants are being asked to assess the effectiveness of the modules before and after they teach using the SWH approach. This project provides college chemistry faculty and teaching assistants with exemplary models to enhance teaching and learning in the general chemistry laboratory through the use of training modules. Different teaching and learning techniques and resources, developed with NSF funding at the University of Washington - Seattle, the University of California - Berkeley and Iowa State University, are combined and serve as the basis of this work.