Jessie Oehrlein (Fitchburg State University), Chris Oehrlein (Oklahoma City Community College)
Abstract
This session will introduce the fundamentals of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), a guided-inquiry learning approach based around student exploration of a provided model through questions that deliberately develop process skills such as communication, teamwork, information processing, and metacognition. Classrooms consist of students in small, self-managed teams completing carefully designed guided-inquiry activities, with student roles to structure effective collaboration in these teams. Models in the form of diagrams, tables, simulations, or games provide students with a dynamic starting point to begin exploring a topic, and questions lead students to formulate conclusions, invent concepts and related skills, and apply those skills to new situations. Participants in the workshop will learn about team dynamics, the design and use of models, and the learning cycle sequencing of questions while experiencing POGIL activities. Participants will also investigate connections between POGIL and other interactive statistics teaching methods, and they will leave with examples of how POGIL can be implemented in statistics and data science classrooms and resources to continue exploring POGIL.