PBL offers potential to help students develop flexible understanding and lifelong learning skills¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2004 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The evidence suggests PBL is an instructional approach with the potential to help students develop flexible understanding and lifelong learning skills. → Hmelo-Silver 2004

Evidence¶

Hmelo-Silver 2004¶

Hmelo-Silver, C.E. (2004). Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?. Educational Psychology Review, 16, 235–266. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:EDPR.0000034022.16470.f3

q2 · i? · review · r?

The article's overall conclusion from examining the empirical evidence supporting PBL is that "the evidence suggests that PBL is an instructional approach that offers the potential" to develop flexible understanding and lifelong learning skills. The claim is stated as potential, not as a demonstrated effect.

"The evidence suggests that PBL is an instructional approach that offers the potential to help students develop flexible understanding and lifelong learning skills."

Discussion¶

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