PBL Research Summary: Studies Validate Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - The Diigo Meta page

• 13 Oct 09
  

  Richard Smyth

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• 11 Sep 09
  

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• 06 Sep 09
  

  Jenifer Pliska

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• 19 Aug 09
  

  Stephanie Manes

  A collection of studies detailing the benefits of Project-Based Learning. The conclusions show that project-based learning engages students, cuts absenteeism, boosts cooperative learning skills, and improves test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way.

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• 10 Aug 09
  

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• 23 Jul 09
  

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• 07 Jul 09
  

  Brandy Wesson

  Research on PBL

  • 1992 study of 700 students from eleven school districts in Tennessee found that
    students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three-week period
    performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.
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      Brandy Wesson on 2009-07-07

      Read the piece about successful school restructuring and remember this as a great reason for teachers to pursue PBL
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  • • Successful School Restructuring

      
      

      A five-year study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers found that
      structural school reform works only under certain conditions:

      
      

      1. Students must be engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and
      allow them to apply that knowledge to new situations.

      
      

      2. Students must use disciplined inquiry.

      
      

      3. School activities must have value beyond school. In their report,
      "Successful School Restructuring," the researchers at Wisconsin's Center on
      Organization and Restructuring of Schools found that even innovative school
      improvements, such as portfolio assessment and shared decision making, are less
      effective without accompanying meaningful student assignments based on deep
      inquiry. Reseachers analyzed data from more than 1,500 elementary, middle, and
      high schools and conducted field studies in forty-four schools in sixteen states
      between 1990 and 1995.

• 03 Jul 09
  

  Jimm Zabiegalski

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  • that students at the project-based school did better than those at the more
    traditional school both on math problems requiring analytical or conceptual
    thought and on those considered rote, that is, those requiring memory of a rule
    or formula. Three times as many students at the project-based school received
    the top grade achievable on the national examination in math.
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  • • communication skills, teamwork, and problem solving.
    • found increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning,
      increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement
    • gains by students who had been labeled low achievers
    • constructing a presentation aimed at a particular audience
    • student content, attention to audience, and design.
    • 700 students from eleven school districts in Tennessee found that students doing
      projects using videotaped problems over a three-week period performed better in
      a number of academic areas later in the school year.
    • improved test scores in all
    • 26 percent.
    • with real-world applications
    • relationships or changing variables, student achievement increased
    • After two years in the program, two of the three schools advanced from "well
      below average" to "well above the district average"
    • use of laptop technology
    • lectures and other teacher-centered forms of delivery to lessons that are more
      collaborative and project-oriented. Teachers, researchers note, become
      facilitators in project-oriented classrooms, with students increasingly assuming
      the role of directors of their own learning
    • project-based instruction had increased
    • introduction of the laptops in their classrooms
    • student engagement, improved analytic abilities, and a greater likelihood to
      apply high-order thinking skills
    • engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and allow them to apply that
      knowledge to new situations
    • disciplined inquiry
    • decrease in absenteeism and an increase in students transferring to the school
• 29 Jun 09
  

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• 27 Jun 09
  

  Jason Keown
  • technology-using
  • outperformed non-technology-using students in communication skills, teamwork,
    and problem solving
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  • • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased
      peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students who had
      been labeled low achievers
    • Co-nect
    • 26 percent
    • if computers were used for drill or practice, they typically had a negative
      effect on student achievement. If they were used with real-world applications,
      such as spreadsheets, or to simulate relationships or changing variables,
      student achievement increased.
    • learning by doing
    • 39th to the 80th percentile
    • Teachers, researchers note, become facilitators in project-oriented classrooms,
      with students increasingly assuming the role of directors of their own learning.
    • School activities must have value beyond school
• 20 Jun 09
  

  Nadia Smith
  • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased
    peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students who had
    been labeled low achievers
• 30 May 09
  

  Julie Boushehry

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• 29 May 09
  

  Kay Schmalen

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• 27 May 09
  

  Evan Abbey

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• 12 May 09
  

  Joan Kane

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• 11 May 09
  

  Meg Guerreiro
  • math problems requiring analytical or conceptual thought and on those considered rote, that is, those requiring memory of a rule or formula.
  • communication skills, teamwork, and problem solving.
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  • • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students who had been labeled low achievers.
    • found that if computers were used for drill or practice, they typically had a negative effect on student achievement. If they were used with real-world applications, such as spreadsheets, or to simulate relationships or changing variables, student achievement increased.
    • Students must be engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and allow them to apply that knowledge to new situations.
    • inquiry
    • value beyond school.
    • decrease in absenteeism and an increase in students transferring to the school.
• 09 May 09
  

  Katrina Johnston

  pbl Education

  • striking differences in understanding and standardized achievement data in mathematics
  • students at the project-based school did better than those at the more traditional school both on math problems requiring analytical or conceptual thought and on those considered rote
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  • • technology-using students in Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project classrooms outperformed non-technology-using students in communication skills, teamwork, and problem solving
    • Multimedia Project classrooms outperformed comparison classrooms in all three areas scored by researchers and teachers: student content, attention to audience, and design.
    • if computers were used for drill or practice, they typically had a negative effect on student achievement. If they were used with real-world applications, such as spreadsheets, or to simulate relationships or changing variables, student achievement increased.

    • Students must be engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and allow them to apply that knowledge to new situations.

      
      
      

      2. Students must use disciplined inquiry.

      
      
      

      3. School activities must have value beyond school.

• 20 Mar 09
  

  Becky Hayes
  • Three times as many students at the project-based school received the top grade
    achievable on the national examination in math.
  • technology-using students in Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project classrooms
    outperformed non-technology-using students in communication skills, teamwork,
    and problem solving
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  • • found increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning,
      increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students
      who had been labeled low achievers.
    • test scores in all subject areas over a two-year period on the Tennessee
      Value-Added Assessment System. The Co-nect schools outperformed control schools
      by 26 percent.
    • if computers were used for drill or practice, they typically had a negative
      effect on student achievement.
    • After two years in the program, two of the three schools advanced from "well
      below average" to "well above the district average" on the Iowa Test of Basic
      Skills.
    • Students must be engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and allow
      them to apply that knowledge to new situations.
    • Students must use disciplined inquiry.
    • School activities must have value beyond school
    • decrease in absenteeism
• 17 Mar 09
  

  Pam Oliveira

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• 16 Mar 09
  

  Karen Ceh

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  • engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve
    test scores.
  • technology-using students in Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project classrooms
    outperformed non-technology-using students in communication skills, teamwork,
    and problem solving.
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  • • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased
      peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students who had
      been labeled low achievers.
    • decrease in absenteeism
• 15 Mar 09
  

  Gardner Salahi
  • Research shows the efficacy of an authentic form of education that expects students to immerse themselves in a topic and meaningfully demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge.
  • A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way in the projects. Following are synopses of a range of studies on project-based learning:
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  • • outperformed non-technology-using students in communication skills, teamwork, and problem solving.
    • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students who had been labeled low achievers.
    • if computers were used for drill or practice, they typically had a negative effect on student achievement.
    • One elementary school raised its average score from the 39th to the 80th percentile.
    • researchers have documented a shift from lectures and other teacher-centered forms of delivery to lessons that are more collaborative and project-oriented. Teachers, researchers note, become facilitators in project-oriented classrooms, with students increasingly assuming the role of directors of their own learning
    • Among the many reported benefits of this project-based approach to learning are greater student engagement, improved analytic abilities, and a greater likelihood to apply high-order thinking skills.
    • Successful School Restructuring
    • Students must be engaged in
    • Students must use disciplined inquiry.
    • School activities must have value beyond school.
    • eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement
    • he study also found a decrease in absenteeism
    • Four years earlier, the state had been considering a takeover because Union City failed in forty of fifty-two indicators of school effectiveness.
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      taught science with the Modeling Instruction Method. They have the
      
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• 13 Mar 09
  

  Peg Maddocks

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  Jay Fogleman

  Summary of evidence for problem-based or project-based learning.

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• 09 Mar 09
  

  Gianto Widianto

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  • A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.
  • technology-using students in Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project classrooms outperformed non-technology-using students in communication skills, teamwork, and problem solving.
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  • • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains by students who had been labeled low achievers.
    • A 1992 study of 700 students from eleven school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three-week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.
    • Students who had experience in the project work performed better in all categories.
• 02 Mar 09
  

  Jim Batchel

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• 12 Feb 09
  

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• 03 Dec 08
  

  Michelle Miller

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• 11 Nov 08
  

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• 10 Nov 08
  

  Jennifer Dorman

  A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way in the projects.

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• 13 Oct 08
  

  jkrauss

  Research shows the efficacy of an authentic form of education that expects students to immerse themselves in a topic and meaningfully demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge.

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• 06 Oct 08
  

  Peter Hess

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• 27 Jul 08
  

  Sharon Woronoff

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• 26 Jul 08
  

  Meg Swecker

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• 25 Jul 08
  

  António Teixeira
  • Research shows the efficacy of an authentic form of education that expects students to immerse themselves in a topic and meaningfully demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge.
  • increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement gains
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  • benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way
• 07 Jul 08
  

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• 30 Jun 08
  

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• 28 Jun 08
  

  Sue Sheffer
  • A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.
• 28 Apr 08
  

  Gregory Louie

  A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way in the projects. Following are synopses of a range of studies on project-based learning:

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• 17 Mar 08
  

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  Brandy Wesson on 2009-07-07
  Read the piece about successful school restructuring and remember this as a great reason for teachers to pursue PBL

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