Practices
Using PBL to Teach 21st Century Skills: Findings from a Statewide Initiative in West Virginia
In 2008, the West Virginia Department of Education launched a major initiative to provide teachers with professional development in PBL.… more...
Evidence of PBL Effectiveness in Closing the Achievement Gap: Boaler (2002) Math Study
This remarkable article is full of insights about what it takes to make PBL and related reform practices work in… more...
Project Based Learning in Middle Grades Mathematics
This research summary from the National Middle School Association describes PBL as a method of instruction that can help engage… more...
Understanding Projects in Project-based Learning: A Student’s Perspective
This article shares the perspective of five students who completed an 8th grade geography project that focused on investigating civil… more...
Project-based Learning for the 21st Century: Skills for the Future
There is growing interest in using PBL to teach 21st century skills. This article reviews evidence and strategies for… more...
Challenge Based Learning (from the Apple Learning Interchange)
The research report from the New Media Consortium is available as a PDF file. This study asked teachers and students… more...
National Survey of PBL and High School Reform
Collected articles from BIE's 2007 national survey, with data from approximately 400 academic high school teachers who used PBL in… more...
Pervasive management of project based learning
This chapter in the Handbook for Classroom Management discusses how to plan projects and guide students effectively through the project… 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...
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...
