FULL:  What are productive ways to involve students in lecture, laboratory, and project courses? How can individual contributions to team efforts be assessed and taken into account in grading? Cooperative learning is a structured approach to using student teams that can address these issues. Extensive research has shown that when properly implemented, cooperative learning motivates students to learn, increases the extent and quality of their learning, lowers attrition from STEM programs, and improves attitudes of students toward their education. In this interactive workshop, Dr. Rich Felder will review relevant research and describe and demonstrate cooperative learning. Dr. Felder has authored or coauthored over 300 articles on chemical process engineering and engineering and science education. Most of his publications can be viewed at www.ncsu.edu/effective_teaching.

Lunch will be provided.