Give an example of an authentic form of assessment the students engaged in a PBL performed well on?
One example of authentic assessment that I found the article is where students were asked to apply the concepts of geometry to architecture and submit designs for a new playhouse for a community center. After evaluating these designs, 84 percent of the submissions were judged to be accurate enough to build.
How does project based learning promote intrinsic motivation?
Project based learning creates a strong sense of intrinsic motivation because students rise to the occasion when failing will result in letting down their peers.
What do students who experience PBL do better than students who receive traditional direct instruction?
Students who experience PBL instruction are better at problem solving than students taught with the traditional direct instruction. Students who experienced PBL instruction were also able to score higher on standardized test than their direct instruction counterparts.
How does PBL align with John Dewey’s philosophy of education?
Dewey proposed that learning by doing has great benefit in shaping students’ learning. This is exactly what project based learning accomplishes; students are working to solve real world problems using their own individual discovery. This type of learning creates a deeper understanding of all material involved and allows students to make the necessary connections between the content and its relationship to their lives.
Why do our assessment practices need to change if we are going to prepare students for the 21st century?
Current assessment strategies are based solely on the success of individual students’. Working cooperatively with others is an absolute necessity to be successful in life; therefore, students need to learn how to do it to become productive citizens.
Reference:
Bell, S. (2010). Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century: Skills for the Future. The Clearing House , 39-43.
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