Belonging in POGIL Gateway Classes

The sense of belonging among 285 students was explored at four post-secondary institutions in the United States in introductory courses in Computer Science (one course) and Chemistry (three courses). In all four courses instructors employed Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), a collaborative and student-centered teaching approach. To assess students' sense of belonging, they were asked to complete surveys of seven Likert-scale questions and two open-response questions at the beginning and the end of the Spring'23 semester.