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Strategy Guides
As students work together on projects, they learn valuable skills for collaborating, managing group dynamics and conflict, and building on one another’s strengths.
Strategy Guides
Whether your students exhibit their work products during the course of the project, at the end, or both, you’ll want to have many sets of eyes on their public products. An audience feedback form is a tool used to actively engage the audience at an exhibition.
Strategy Guides
A rubric is more than a tool to assess final products. It is a tool that should be leveraged throughout the project to support multiple kinds of learning opportunities for your students. This guide offers strategies for using rubrics to aid learning at each phase of a project.
Strategy Guides
Effective teams require us to think carefully about the kind of work students will be doing throughout the project. What outcomes are most important? How can we utilize teams so students effectively reach those outcomes?
Strategy Guides
The need to know questions that initiated inquiry at the beginning of the project are central to students’ learning as they follow the project path. Need to know questions are revisited throughout the project in order to track learning and support sustained inquiry.
(Document), (Research)
Short 2018 research brief by Buck Institute with evidence of PBL's impact on student learning in cor
Articles, (Research)
A useful introduction to PBL including summaries of research studies and PBL in Action.
Articles, (Research)
PBL yields benefits for students, from deeper learning of academic content to increased motivation
(Document), (Research)
A model for an online unit & sample projects
Articles, (Document), (Research)
Out of the Gate: Teacher Education Program-District Partnerships for High-Quality PBL
Articles, (Document), (Research)
BIE hires Dr. Brandon Wiley as new Chief Program Officer
Articles, (Document), (Research)
A publication from Getting Smart and BIE
(Document), (Research)
Review of research on project-based instruction Pre-K -12 (2000-2011) by Margaret Holm, Rivier College
(Document), (Research)
Widely-cited meta-analysis commissioned by Autodesk Foundation
(Document), (Research)
This study examines the relationships between teacher-reported use of online resources and PBL.
Planning Tools, (Document), (Research)
Compares what various organizations describe as "21st century skills"
(Document), (Research)
Examined how members of a small group interacted with and supported each other during a PBL unit
(Document), (Research)
Study finds test score gains for middle school students taught with PBL
(Document), (Research)
Research summary from the National Middle School Association