Implementing Guided Inquiry in Biochemistry: Challenges and Opportunities 

Jennifer Loertscher and Vicky Minderhout 

Guided inquiry is an active learning strategy that engages students in specially designed activities with the goal of helping them develop disciplinary knowledge and transferable skills. This evidence-based pedagogy has been used widely in STEM, including in the molecular life sciences. In this chapter we describe defining features of guided inquiry learning and characterize the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing it in the biochemistry classroom. Specifically, we describe aspects of implementation that are particular to an upper division, interdisciplinary course and we address how activities and classroom facilitation can be structured for an application-based discipline like biochemistry. 

DOI: 10.1021/bk-2019-1337.ch005