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Koszalka, Tiffany A.; Song, Hae-Deok; Grabowski, Barbara L. – 2001
Reflection involves active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or practice. It promotes understanding of underlying beliefs and application of new knowledge to new situations. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) provides the instructional mechanisms for prompting learner reflective thinking. Research questions for this study were: (1)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Learning Activities
Dirkx, John M.; Smith, Regina O. – Online Submission, 2004
Increased emphasis is being placed on working and learning through teams, especially online. While technical aspects of this process have largely been the focus of researchers and practitioners, the emotional dynamics of online teams has received considerably less attention. In this study of online, problem-based learning teams, membership evoked…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Problem Based Learning
Cartier, Sylvie; Plante, Andre; Tardif, Jacques – 2001
Many educational institutions have moved toward situated learning and problem-based learning (PBL) in which students, to learn, must rely on investigations of problems within an authentic professional context. A study examined and described how students read and learn in such a context. Results of a 1995 qualitative study showed that four out of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Medical Schools
Stepich, Donald A.; Ertmer, Peggy A.; Lane, Molly M. – 2000
This paper proposes the use of specific coaching strategies to facilitate students' use of expert-like problem-solving strategies while analyzing and solving instructional design case studies. Findings from an exploratory study, designed to examine changes in students' problem-solving skills as they analyzed case studies, suggested that students…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Marty, Paul; Sheahan, Kim; Lacy, Ann – 2003
This paper presents preliminary results from a five year longitudinal study on the efficacy of integrating museum resources into elementary and middle school curricula through educational outreach activities, over the Internet and in the classroom. From 1997 to 2003, museum educators at the University of Illinois' Spurlock Museum have explored how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Internet
Polman, Joseph L. – 2000
This interpretive case study of a teacher aims to provide an account of the difficulties and rewards of putting innovative teaching into practice. Detailed descriptions of classroom life are used to explore one teacher's attempts to make technology-enhanced, open-ended inquiry a successful mode of teaching science in the secondary school…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Policy, Problem Based Learning
Settelmaier, Elisabeth – 2003
Traditionally, many science educators have taught science without addressing ethical questions. However, the inclusion of moral discourse in science teaching may help educators to bring to the fore problematic issues in relation to science, and it may offer an opportunity for students to practice their future engagement in the public discourse…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Learning Strategies
Orrill, Chandra Hawley – 2000
This paper describes and evaluates the design process involved in creating a single problem for online delivery in a problem-based learning (PBL) situation. The paper attempts to highlight the issues involved with implementing the problem in a completely distributed environment through a narrative about the design of the problem within an…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Butler, Susan McAleenan – 2000
This qualitative study, investigating the claims, concerns, and issues arising within the design stages of problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum units, was conducted during two masters-level classes during the summer of 1999. A hermeneutic dialectic discourse among veteran teachers (who were novice PBL curriculum designers) was facilitated by…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Estes, Dwain M. – 2000
This paper describes the introduction of a problem-based learning program in a new doctoral program at the University of Texas--Pan American in 1998. Students were assigned the problem of studying the implementation of a two-way bilingual education in their Educational Leadership Laboratory and making recommendations regarding the use of one or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education
Hsu, Yu-chen – 1999
The purpose of this paper is to review evaluation theories and techniques in both the medical and educational fields and to propose an evaluation theory to explain the condition variables, the method variables, and the outcome variables of student assessment in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach. The PBL definition and process are presented,…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Theories, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Januszewski, Alan; Pearson, Robert – 1999
This paper examines, through historical analysis, the values and beliefs underpinning the early theories and applications of problem-based learning and contrasts these with current theory and practice. This study focuses on the first three decades of the twentieth century, because, during this time period, the use of projects in education became…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational History, Educational Technology, Educational Theories
Hseih, Wen-Lan; Smith, Brian K.; Stephanou, Spiro E. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
A team consisting of three faculty members from Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness management, and Food Science with two research assistants at Penn State University has been working for three years on creating a food product case library for a problem-based learning and case-based instruction course. With the assistance of experts from the food…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Foods Instruction, Higher Education

Hadgraft, Roger – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1997
Describes how a fourth-year computing elective was introduced at Monash University in 1995 with the goal of allowing students to pursue their own computing interests in a project-based subject. The course demonstrates student-directed learning and the pride resulting from such ownership. Shows how the subject can use a wide range of resources…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Engineering Education

Norman, Geoff – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 1997
Reflects on the merits of the Problem Based curriculum designed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario nearly 30 years ago. This curriculum was a product influenced by the times in which it was used rather than by any educational theory. Concludes that it is necessary to edit the problems as well as any other course materials so as not to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Curriculum Research, Foreign Countries