Implementing In-Person, Remote, and Video-Based Lab Recitation for General Chemistry

We offered in-person, remote, and video-based lab recitation to provide academic support for General Chemistry I. Students consistently perceived the overall lab recitation in all three delivery modes as useful, and they appreciated the opportunity of practicing. Through our implementation of the lab recitation, we have found different challenges that require carefully planned adaptation in the three delivery modes. For in-person and remote lab recitation, essential training of teaching assistants is important, especially for the facilitators, and smaller size sections would provide a better student learning experience. We also found that instruction videos are effective to give students an overview of the group exercises in the remote lab recitation. The administration of in-person and online quizzes differed substantially. While students liked the videos and the interactive questions in the video-based lab recitation, there were concerns about the online quizzes, but they were mostly related to the administration and the logistics. Our experiences are intended to help others in designing better academic support programs or recitations in different delivery modes.