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Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?
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Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E. – Educational Psychology Review, 2004
Problem-based approaches to learning have a long history of advocating experience-based education. Psychological research and theory suggests that by having students learn through the experience of solving problems, they can learn both content and thinking strategies. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method in which students learn…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Educational Psychology, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning