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Workshop Chemistry Program
Workshops (or Peer-led Team Learning in the science literature)
are experiences in active learning: students actively solve
problems to reveal where the difficult or obscure steps might be,
and then cooperatively progress through the learning exercise.
It has been demonstrated in many studies on learning that the
outcome far exceed the independent learner. Why? Students are
expected to communicate with each other which requires a higher
level of comprehension than self-learning. Students quiz each
other which places demands on the better students to re-interpret
ideas and concepts in alternative and unanticipated ways, thus
improving their own understanding. So good students get better,
and weak students get stronger. At the same time, students learn
to be part of a team, an oft-heard expectation from potential
employers. |
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