EDU 555Assignment : Article Review

Can Project-Based Learning Close Gaps in Science Education?

Prepared by: Nursaleha Binti Jamaludin

2012987203

ED 247 4A

Prepared for: En. Mohamad Hisyam Ismail

Summary

Author : Ingfei Chen Year : 2014Source : blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09

Issue : Capability of Project –Based Learning in narrowing the gap in students performance.

Content : PBL able to change the learning method Features of effective PBL

Research : PBIS

BUT

GENERALLY AGREE THAT PBL CAN CLOSE THE GAPS OF STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE SUBJECT

WHAT HOW

WHEN WHERE

Comments / OpinionsArticle : PBL being introduced through PBIS which is a

structured activities that emphasize core practices

Opinion :• Emphasize the students opportunity to learn by

experience.• Completing task by creating a project in real and

presenting it (Vega, 2012)• Strategies for Outcome Based Education (OBE) where

the system focused on the outcome of the curriculum (Krishnan & Muhammad, 2012)

Article:• PBL able to change the traditional learning method• Learning through explanation, investigation and

developing model

Opinion:• Self-conducting experience • Student centered learning• It allow active involvement of students in the learning

process and be able to manipulate the knowledge that being exposed to them in order to solve the problem that being encountered (Krishnan & Muhammad, 2012)

Article :• The project-based science lessons seem to

work for all kinds of kids.• The research of PBIS is conducted to grades

6 – 8

Opinion :• PBL is suitable to all level of learners but

depending on different condition

Realistic project based on

students level

Structured group work

Professional learning network

Multi-faceted assessment

Article :•Indoor or outdoor•Applicable and practical•Using of PBIS unit

Opinion :•Applicable and flexible in implementation

Source : www.edutopia.org/pbl-research-learning-outcomes

Article :• Teachers need a training to run the new

teaching method

Opinion :• Curriculum should involved the one who teach

it• Implemented by stage

Article (research) :• Implemented to sixth-grade science class at 42

middle school in diverse urban public school• Students in PBIS class perform 8 % better than

the one in the traditional class method

Opinion :• PBL is strategies that involved active

participation • The training to teachers is essential

PBL in Malaysia

• PBL handbook proposed by Education Technology Division of Education Ministry on September 2006.

• Using PBL Approach to Conduct Project Course in Polytechnic of Port Dickson, Malaysia (2012) by Murugan Krishnan and Ruhizan Muhammad

• Engineering education – is problem-based or project-based learning the answer by Julie E. Mills and David F. Treagust (2003)

Conclusion

• Not the solution to decrease the teachers workload or even to make T&L as easier to the students

• Strategies to ensure that education is aligned with the mission and vision for the generation

• Transform the education as a meaningful learning

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