JoinTeaching Problem-Solving Skills without Sacrificing Course Content: Marrying Traditional Lecture and Active Learning in an Organic Chemistry Class
Promoting problem-solving skills is a challenge faced by all science instructors. Teaching students to integrate information without sacrificing content is critical. When taught with an active problem-centered teaching model, students’ mean scores and score distributions on the American Chemical Society standardized exams were significantly improved without students’ course content being sacrificed.