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Franci Cronje; Carla Enslin – Discover Education, 2024
The primary role and value of a transdisciplinary online collaborative problem-based learning (OCPBL) project is that all disciplines fully participate in producing solutions to challenges. Acquiring the confidence to do so transcends all disciplines. The central role of educators then emerges in facilitating students' confidence in their ability…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Interdisciplinary Approach, Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Christina Koehne; WenYen Huang; Nataly Chesky – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2024
This study aims to understand the ways in which problem-based teaching in a mathematics content course can alleviate pre-service elementary school teachers' mathematics anxiety. The significance of this work is to help increase the content and pedagogical knowledge of mathematics education, as outlined in STEM policies. Using a mixed method…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Pan, Gary; Seow, Poh-Sun; Shankararaman, Venky; Koh, Kevin – Journal of International Education in Business, 2021
Purpose: One of the main obstacles facing project-based learning (PBL) adoption relates to a lack of understanding by teachers and students in the roles they are required to play in the learning process. This study aims to address this obstacle, so as to better promote regular adoption of PBL pedagogy in educational institutions.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Problem Based Learning, Teacher Role
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Koskinen, Rauno; Pitkäniemi, Harri – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2022
The premise on which our synthesis is based is the fragmentation of research focused on teaching and learning in mathematics. Our intention is to build an aggregate synthesis from these sources in the context of school education and meaningful learning. Our research targets the links between the different approaches used in teaching, interaction…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Context Effect, Relevance (Education)
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van der Vleuten, Cees P. M.; Schuwirth, Lambert W. T. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Arguably, constructive alignment has been the major challenge for assessment in the context of problem-based learning (PBL). PBL focuses on promoting abilities such as clinical reasoning, team skills and metacognition. PBL also aims to foster self-directed learning and deep learning as opposed to rote learning. This has incentivized researchers in…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Evaluation, Testing, Learning Processes
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Nemiro, Jill E. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2021
Educators now recognize the importance of providing students early on with practice to build necessary 21st-century work-related skills, such as collaboration. School robotics programs are increasingly being used to meet the goals of STEM standards-based content assessment and the development of collaboration skills. However, limited…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Teamwork, Group Dynamics
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Ali, Sheeba Sardar – English Language Teaching, 2019
Problem-based learning is a teaching method in which students' learn through the complex and open ended problems. These problems are real world problems and are used to encourage students' learning through principles and concept. PBL is both a teaching method and approach to the curriculum. It can develop critical thinking skill, problem solving…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Rabin, Colette; Smith, Grinell – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Isolation is often a problem in online courses. In this qualitative study, we used care ethics perspectives to design the social organization of an online course to foster the development of robust collaborative professional relationships. Redesign focused on two areas. First, we centered all assignments on complex real-world problems. Second, we…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Caring, Ethics, Curriculum Design
Anderson, Lorin W.; Pešikan, Ana – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2016
Students of all ages spend a good amount of their time in classrooms engaged in some type of academic work (e.g. worksheets, workbooks, scientific projects, essays, research papers). On average, students from elementary through high school spend approximately one-half of their classroom time working by themselves ("seatwork") or in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Low Income Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Learning Activities
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Ansarian, Loghman; Adlipour, Ali Akbar; Saber, Mehrnoush Akhavan; Shafiei, Elmira – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study investigated the effect of problem-based learning through cognition-based tasks on speaking proficiency of Iranian intermediate EFL learners in comparison to the effect of objective-based tasks. To this end, a true experimental research design was employed. Ninety five (N = 95) language learners studying at a language institute in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Allan, Elizabeth G. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
This article identifies the strategies used by architecture professors and their undergraduate students to mitigate common issues that students raise about group work. Based on participant-observation, interviews with students and faculty, and analysis of instructional materials and student work, this IRB-approved ethnographic case study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Small Group Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Noe, Kelly – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development, implementation and outcome of a field-based learning flow-charting project that was conducted in an accounting information systems (AIS) course. The emphasis for the project was strengthening the students' critical thinking skills. This paper advances AIS education by sharing a field-based…
Descriptors: Accounting, Information Systems, Flow Charts, Field Experience Programs
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Goh, Karen – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2014
This qualitative study examines the attributes of effective teachers in a problem-based learning (PBL) classroom, specifically in a polytechnic context in Singapore. The educational beliefs, approaches and strategies of a group of PBL facilitators who have received teaching awards are examined to understand how critical thinking, collaborative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Problem Based Learning
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Nariman, Nahid; Chrispeels, Janet – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
We explore teachers' efforts to implement problem-based learning (PBL) in an elementary school serving predominantly English learners. Teachers had an opportunity to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) using PBL in a summer school setting with no test-pressures. To understand the challenges and benefits of PBL implementation, a…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Elementary School Students, Prior Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Pourshafie, Tahereh; Murray-Harvey, Rosalind – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2013
The problem-based learning (PBL) literature presents the shift from teacher-directed transmission models of instruction to facilitation as a challenge for PBL tutors. This article reports an in-depth thematic analysis of reflective written responses on PBL of 63 teacher education students enrolled at an Australian university. Attitudes, skills and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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