Research
Beyond changing culture in small high schools: Reform models and PBL
The following article appeared in a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education on “Transforming the American High School:… more...
Assessing the impact of online technologies on PBL use in US high schools
This paper summarizes attempts to understand how PBL is being supported by online technologies. Findings are based on BIE's National… more...
Converting Problem-Based Learning to Standards-Based Assessment
This study intended first to investigate the degree to which problem-based and project-based learning as instructional methodologies could be transferred… more...
Scaffolding and Achievement in PBL: Why PBL is not Minimally Guided
Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006) appeared in Educational Psychologist in… more...
Research on Professional Development
BIE has collected research on effective professional development as way to inform our work with others. The following articles represent… more...
Managing Project Based Learning: Principles from the Field
This investigation sought to describe the classroom management techniques used by teachers who were expert in the use of project… more...
Federally funded study provides evidence of PBL effectiveness in high school economics
This paper discusses findings from the experimental study of BIE's Project Based Economics units, conducted with IES-funding, by WestEd's Regional… more...
Effectiveness of Problem-Based Instruction: A Comparative Study of Instruction and Students
This study examined the potential differences between Problem Based Learning (PBL) and traditional instructional approaches in building high school students'… more...
Measuring opportunity to learn in PBS: Predicting urban middle school students’ achievement
This poster presents findings from a 7 year collaboration between University of Michigan and Detroit Public Schools. It presents findings… more...
Evaluation of initiatives to create smaller high schools
American Institutes for Research and SRI International have concluded their evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's National School… more...
