PBL can be helpful in improving clinical competence in students. This approach uses foundational principles of PBL from the beginning of the semester-long health assessment course. (The course meets ...

A large, international study shows that problem-based learning is more effective than standard instruction in math and science, and a national survey confirms that students, parents and teachers all ...

PubMed, ERIC and PsycLIT. The database search was supplemented with manual search of the electronic archives of the following journals: Academic Medicine, Medical Education, Teaching and Learning in ...

AbstractVOL: 102, ISSUE: 21, PAGE NO: 34Steve Wood, MSc, BSc, is head of department for mental health and learning disability, Anglia Ruskin University, EssexAim: To obtain the opinions of a group of ...

A serious look at how educational innovations are disseminated may give the thoughtful observer cause to question the pervasiveness of the “scientific method.” Sometimes it seems that education moves ...

Elementary school students in Illinois whose teachers used a project-based-learning curriculum had stronger scores on a math test that measured problem solving than their peers from more-traditional ...

Education experts are encouraging schools to consider problem-based learning (PBL) in a move to improve engagement and creativity among high school students. New research demonstrates how hands-on, ...

Picture this: You’re back in the fourth grade. You whip out a freshly sharpened number two pencil as your teacher hands you a math exam. You look down at the page, and see a question: The average ...

Faculty in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, successfully implemented a change in teaching strategies that was based on the ...