英文摘要 |
Chemistry experiment class is an important teaching field to develop students’ scientific skills and competencies, however, teachers are often unable to conduct inquiry-based teaching and in-depth discussions in the classroom due to the pressure of teaching time. The first purpose of this research was to explore whether process-oriented guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) can eliminate the gap in the learning of chemical knowledge among undergraduate students with different levels of prior knowledge. The second purpose was to determine the effects of undergraduate students’ prior knowledge and engagement on their three learning outcomes—subject knowledge, self-efficacy, and teamwork belief. Fifty-six students taking general chemistry experiment course participated in the 16-week POGIL teaching intervention. Another 50 peers were selected as the control group. Descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation, and partial least squares were used. This study found that the academic knowledge performance gap of the students with high, medium and low prior knowledge is significantly reduced after the intervention of POGIL teaching. In addition, students’ prior knowledge can effectively predict their subject knowledge, and engagement can effectively predict their self-efficacy and teamwork belief. This research confirms that POGIL has a positive impact on the improvement of undergraduate students' learning outcomes, and it can be promoted in chemistry experiment class. |