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Zinab Aba-Oli; Kidane Koyas; Abera Husen – School Science and Mathematics, 2025
This qualitative review aims to describe the current status of problem-based learning (PBL) implementation in mathematics and identify research gaps in the area of investigation. Literature was searched using the ERIC and Google Scholar search engines. The inclusion/exclusion criteria included: articles published in reputable journals in English…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Intervention
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Joseph F. Bron; Maricar S. Prudente – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
Problem-based learning (PBL) is linked to developing learners' creative thinking in mathematics. This process-oriented approach capitalizes on using problems to stimulate learning through independent and collaborative investigations. This meta-analysis looked at the effectiveness of using PBL to influence mathematical creativity. Fifteen results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Undergraduate Students
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N. Nurwidodo; Siti Zaenab; Iin Hindun; Sri Wahyuni – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2025
The problem-based learning (PBL) model consists of five steps: orienting students to the problem, organizing work, guiding investigations, compiling work and presenting it, and evaluating the process and results. However, many teachers have not implemented the first and second steps properly, so that the goal of developing students' critical and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking
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Rima Suwistika; I. Ibrohim; Hendra Susanto – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
Education in the 21st century has experienced many advances that are adjusted to the demands of the times. Thinking skills are in high demand in the 21st century, especially critical thinking and creative thinking skills for students. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of POPBL model learning in improving critical and creative thinking…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, 21st Century Skills, High School Students
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Noviansyah Kusmahardhika; Bela Mulia Wati; Triastono Imam Prasetyo – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
21st-century skills can be applied to STEM education. The Merdeka Curriculum also has a passion to support teachers and schools in exploring and implementing STEM as a learning approach to improve student competence. The study aims to develop learning tools consisting of the syllabus, lesson plans, and student worksheets (SLS) that are valid and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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Simanjuntak, Mariati Purnama; Hutahaean, Juniar; Marpaung, Nurliana; Ramadhani, Dewi – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This study is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of problem-based learning combined with simulation on students' problem-solving and creative thinking skills. By employing a quasi-experimental design, this study used essay and problem-based tests as the instruments to evaluate problem-solving and creative thinking skills of 192 students. These…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Computer Simulation
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Mustofa, Romy Faisal; Hidayah, Yeni Ratna – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This study explores the effect of problem-based learning on students' lateral thinking skills in biology subjects, the concept of environmental change. This quantitative research uses a quasi-experimental model with a pre-test post-test control group design. The population in this study were students of class X MIPA Integrated High School Riyadlul…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Thinking Skills, Biology, High School Students
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Supratman; Zubaidah, Siti; Corebima, Aloysius Duran; Ibrohim – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This quasi-experimental research aimed at investigating the effect of ProblemOriented Project-Based Learning (POPBL), Student Team Achievement Division (STAD), POPBLSTAD integration, and conventional learning on students' critical and creative thinking skills. Essay tests conducted to 129 students. The results of the test assessed using a relevant…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Scores, Comparative Analysis
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Rillero, Peter; Soykal, Ali Kozan; Bicer, Alpay – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Problem-based learning via virtual exchange affords opportunities for students to learn biology while developing abilities to learn about and work with diverse others. We describe an activity using these methods, with goals for students to develop useful cell structure analogies, analyze how analogies are not perfect representations of target…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Science Instruction, Biology, Cytology
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Abushkin, Haris K. H.; Kharitonova, Anna A.; Khvastunov, Nikolay N.; Gorshunov, Maksim V. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Problem-based learning is one of the promising innovative technologies for the educational process in the school. The study is based on system-activity and technological approaches. The study was based on the survey, which was attended by 185 teachers of physics, mathematics and computer science at general education schools of Mordovia. This…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Problem Solving
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Asunda, Paul A.; Weitlauf, John – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2018
In order to maintain the United States' global competitiveness and create new and innovative solutions to solve global challenges, more and diverse numbers of STEM graduates need to be attracted and retained in technical disciplines (Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Employment Qualifications
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Bennie, Fiona; Corbett, Charlotte; Palo, Angela – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2015
This article describes an after-school program at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf (HMS), the oldest public day school for deaf students in the United States, where almost half of the student body imagined and created bridge and robotic machines. The Deaf Robotics Engineering and Math Team, or the DREAM Team club, included HMS students in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Robotics, Deafness, Program Descriptions
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory