Abstract During the past decades, independent operation and finishing experiments alone have been accentuated excessively in teaching labs in China, which partly overlooked the organization and effectiveness of cooperative learning strategies. One collaborating learning format is role-playing, which is a tool that allows the students act out real situations, providing practitioners with training in ethics, cooperation competency, communication skills, and so on. The effectiveness of role-playing depends largely on context and execution, and so this article presented a model how to maximize the utility and benefits of role-playing to enhance the performance of experiment teaching. In this pedagogical approach, students assumed roles (manager, or chemist, or analyst) in a "company". Each person played a different role in each experiment, filling each role several times during the rotation.
ZHANG Run-Jie, GU Xing-Hai, LIU Rong-Min. Role-Playing as a Pedagogical Approach in Chemical Experiment Teaching[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 38(6): 29-34.