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Sobral, Dejano T. – Medical Teacher, 1998
A self-help group approach was used to enhance medical students' cooperative skills within an elective course. The task profile envisaged included team building, cooperative information search and problem-solving skills, and providing and receiving constructive feedback. Findings suggest that training for productive cooperative learning is useful…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Anatomy, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development

Martin, Kathleen J.; Chrispeels, Janet H. – Journal of School Leadership, 1998
Examines how three students in an administrative-credential program developed collaborative problem-solving competence through participating in two problem-based learning classes. Data collected over one year indicates these classes allowed students to acquire knowledge and skills in group processes, problem solving, and course content. Later,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study
Barron, Daniel D. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2001
Discusses gardening as an appropriate theme for problem-based learning activities that are interdisciplinary, and suggests related resources for library media specialists. Highlights include gardening in the research literature; resources from ERIC, including specific program descriptions; books; Web sites; 4-H programs; and butterfly gardens.…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Gardening, Insects

Dods, Richard F. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1996
Describes the design of a biochemistry course that uses problem-based learning. Provides opportunities for students to question, dispute, confirm, and disconfirm their understanding of basic concepts. Emphasizes self-correction through dialogue. Topics covered include amino acids, metabolic pathways and inherited disease, proteins, enzymes and…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Discussion, Educational Strategies, Enzymes

Chenoweth, Tom; Everhart, Robert B. – Journal of School Leadership, 1994
Describes the development and implementation of a class on the topic of school change. The class was organized using the precepts of problem-based learning, believing that this was an effective way to reflect the reality of the environment in which school change occurs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Course Content, Curriculum Development

Ehrlich, Thomas – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1999
Discusses the process of creating a course that aims to strengthen in students the four central components of civic learning (motivation, skills, knowledge, and values) by employing three different types of instruction (service learning, collaborative learning, and problem-based learning). Describes the course and its success in fostering civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Cooperative Learning, Course Content

Hughes, Andrew S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1997
Explores whether problem-based learning experiences foster a more thoughtful learning environment than other educational experiences that prospective social studies teachers encounter. Reveals that the beginning teachers viewed problem-based learning as more thoughtful and investigates whether this finding can be associated with overcoming the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Course Content, Group Activities, Higher Education
Trocco, Frank – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
An assistant professor approaches students' unconventional research topics (like crystal healing) as ordinary research endeavors, asking students if they want their work to be credible, what academic discipline they plan to use, what research question should be asked, and what resources are necessary to understand the topic. (MLH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Problem Based Learning, Research Skills

Ram, Preetha – Journal of Chemical Education, 1999
Describes the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy in an undergraduate classroom. Briefly describes PBL philosophy and protocols, and gives guidance in choosing and integrating a PBL problem into the curriculum. Contains 13 references. (WRM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Course Descriptions, Educational Change, Higher Education

Saye, John W.; Brush, Thomas – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1999
Explores high school students' responses to a problem-based U.S. history unit. Investigates whether multimedia-supported learning assists students in overcoming obstacles to problem-based learning. Focuses on how the multimedia environment was used, the meaning of the learning experience, and how students' responses compared to those students who…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, High School Students, Learning Experience
Ochoa, Theresa A.; Gottschall, Holly; Stuart, Shannon K. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2004
Special education policy requires schools to make disciplinary decisions concerning students with disabilities within a multidisciplinary team. In order to respond to this mandate, teacher educators must ensure that teachers have group collaboration and decision making skills. This article describes a multimedia problem-based learning module…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Learning Modules, Teacher Education, Problem Based Learning
Shore, Mark; Shore, JoAnna; Boggs, Stacey – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2004
For this FIPSE funded project, mathematics faculty attended allied health classes and allied health faculty attended developmental mathematics courses to incorporate health examples into the developmental mathematics curriculum. Through the course of this grant a 450-page developmental mathematics book was written with many problems from a variety…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, College Faculty, Mathematics Instruction
Chung, Jenny; Chow, Susanna – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004
This study, adopting an action-learning approach, aimed to redesign an existing problem-based learning (PBL) subject curriculum to accommodate the learning potential and interests of students. Based on students' perceptions of learning and learning experiences with PBL, a Subject Planning Team (SPT) consisting of both students and teachers was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation, Problem Based Learning, Student Attitudes
Quitadamo, Ian J.; Campanella, Ryan – Science Teacher, 2005
On the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountain range in Washington State, high school biology students have a unique opportunity to study the elusive cougar ("Felis concolor"), a large cat native to the area. Nestled in the Cascade foothills is the city of Cle Elum, a small rural community that is expected to soon experience considerable…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Biology, High School Students
Wilner, Arlene – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
Applying reading and writing theory to cases in composition, this chapter troubleshoots assignments that produced disappointing results and illustrates how the model of the "ill-structured problem" can help writing instructors craft assignments that foster the cognitive and affective maturation essential to college-level literacy. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Assignments, Problem Solving, Student Development