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Teaching space-group diagrams to chemistry students through a peer-tutoring approach

Peer tutoring is a teaching strategy that offers a creative way of getting students more involved and accountable for their own learning in college-level chemistry courses. The authors have found that the ‘Symmetry and Space Group Tutorial’ [Jasinski & Foxman (2007). Symmetry and Space Group Tut...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Shao-Liang, Campbell, Michael G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Union of Crystallography 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2056989021008744
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description Peer tutoring is a teaching strategy that offers a creative way of getting students more involved and accountable for their own learning in college-level chemistry courses. The authors have found that the ‘Symmetry and Space Group Tutorial’ [Jasinski & Foxman (2007). Symmetry and Space Group Tutorial, V1.55. http://people.brandeis.edu/~foxman1/teaching/indexpr.html] lends itself well to a peer-tutoring approach in a crystallography course for chemistry students. This in-class activity provides an opportunity for students to learn space-group diagrams, understand basic symmetry concepts, organize what they have learned, and explain it to their peers, which leads to a deeper overall understanding of the subject. We report on our experience in planning peer tutoring, advise on best practices, and demonstrate the positive impact on student learning and engagement.
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spelling pubmed-84230072021-09-27 Teaching space-group diagrams to chemistry students through a peer-tutoring approach Zheng, Shao-Liang Campbell, Michael G. Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun Modern Approaches and Tools for Teaching Crystallography Peer tutoring is a teaching strategy that offers a creative way of getting students more involved and accountable for their own learning in college-level chemistry courses. The authors have found that the ‘Symmetry and Space Group Tutorial’ [Jasinski & Foxman (2007). Symmetry and Space Group Tutorial, V1.55. http://people.brandeis.edu/~foxman1/teaching/indexpr.html] lends itself well to a peer-tutoring approach in a crystallography course for chemistry students. This in-class activity provides an opportunity for students to learn space-group diagrams, understand basic symmetry concepts, organize what they have learned, and explain it to their peers, which leads to a deeper overall understanding of the subject. We report on our experience in planning peer tutoring, advise on best practices, and demonstrate the positive impact on student learning and engagement. International Union of Crystallography 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8423007/ /pubmed/34584750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2056989021008744 Text en © Zheng and Campbell 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are cited.
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