POGIL | PAC

What is the POGIL PAC?

The POGIL Activity Clearinghouse (PAC) contains student-centered instructional activities at various stages of development centered around the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) pedagogy. The purpose of this site is to facilitate the collaboration, peer review, and classroom testing stages associated with creating high-quality materials meeting the standards approved by The POGIL Project. The site contains student-centered instructional activities at various stages of development centered around the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) pedagogy.

Before you can submit or review activities through the PAC, you must attend both a Fundamentals of POGIL session and a Collaborative Feedback Training (CFT) Session. The latter, a videoconference, is hosted approximately four times a year. Registration for this training session includes login credentials for the PAC.

Click HERE for a video about this training

Click HERE to go to the PAC website

Click HERE for the CFT Schedule and information about registration.

Why Participate?

The PAC is a supportive environment of POGIL practitioners interested in developing new instructional materials. The PAC is a platform to find collaborators by posting an Activity Idea; to get formative peer feedback by submitting an Activity for Review; to get feedback on how your activity works in other classrooms by submitting an Activity for Testing. The goal of the PAC is to support authors through formative feedback.

Connect collaborators

The purpose of the Activity Idea submission category is to support members of the POGIL community in identifying areas of need, generating ideas for activities, and connecting POGIL activity authors.

Receive peer feedback

Authors who submit Activities for Review and Activities for Classroom Testing will receive formative feedback from experienced POGIL practitioners in order to revise and improve the quality of submitted activities and ensure activities function optimally in a wide variety of classroom contexts.

Offer formative assessment

An author who submits an activity to the PAC can choose to have it reviewed as part of a collaborative peer feedback session or by traditional peer review. In the collaborative peer feedback three authors will review one another’s submissions and meet online to share their feedback, discuss recommendations, and develop insights. The traditional review is done offline, and authors receive written feedback using the POGIL rubrics from a minimum of two reviewers.