Practices
Inclusion and Problem-Based Learning: Roles of Students in a Mixed-Ability Group
Mainstreaming is placing increasing numbers of students with special needs in general education classrooms. This case study examined how members… 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...
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...
What teachers and administrators “need to know” about PBL implementation
This paper presents a road map for what hurdles need to be overcome in the pursuit of an effective implementation… 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...
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...
Supporting Change and Scholarship Through Review of Online Resources for Professional Development
How can we accelerate innovation and ensure effective dissemination of knowledge about online learning resources? This paper advocates strategies that… more...
Project Based Learning as a Catalyst in Reforming High Schools (AERA, 2008)
This paper presents initial results from a survey of project based learning conducted across a dozen strata of high schools… more...
New Tech High Schools: Results of the National Survey of PBL and High School Reform
This report highlights characteristics of reform models in general, and New Tech teachers in particular using questions from BIE's national… more...
