Loopholed Scripts: A New Inquiry Approach for the Undergraduate Laboratory

• Matheus Almeida Bauer Zytkuewisz ^[1] ; Denis Ricardo Martins de Godoi ^[1] ; Amadeu Moura Bego ^[1]
  1. [1] São Paulo State University (Unesp), Brazil
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 100, Nº 7, 2023, págs. 2539-2547
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study’s general theme revolves around practical work in chemical education, and its scope is the employment of a novel inquiry strategy combined with a new openness level. We investigate how the controlled positive error, a new device for inquiry activities developed by us, affects undergraduate students’ experience of an experiment and develops their scientific mind after they attend a laboratory class. Qualitative research of the case study type was carried out. The subjects were first-year students enrolled in a general chemistry course. We employed textual documents and focus groups for data gathering and found that significantly changing the pattern of a laboratory activity, despite being a challenging and effortful task, had many benefits for the student’s development, such as increasing their connection to and proactivity toward the experiment.