Evaluating the effectiveness of POGIL-PCL workshops

Stacy L. Stegall, Alexander Grushow, Robert Whitnell and Sally S. Hunnicutt 

The POGIL-PCL (Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory) project has developed a series of workshops to introduce faculty to POGIL-PCL and to facilitate the development of new experiments. More than 60 faculty members from various institutions have attended these workshops. Workshop participants were surveyed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the workshop and better understand why faculty choose to adopt POGIL-PCL. Of the participants who completed the survey, 77% had used POGIL-PCL experiments. The results of the survey show that personal influence is a major factor in all stages of the adoption process. 

DOI: 10.1039/C5RP00225G (Paper) Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2016, 17, 407-416