Helping your students gain the most from PBL: Linda’s complaint: plenary talk and paper published in the proceedings of the 2nd Asia Pacific PBL conference.
Many different options are available. It is crucial that you select a form that works for you and in your environment. It could be PBL for every class in the program; it could be just your class, it could be a 3 week section of your class. Here are some guidelines for selecting a version for you.
"Problem-based Learning: helping your students gain the most from PBL" book for teachers:
Paper (includes the MRIQ as a measure of teacher's readiness)
Knapper, C. (1994) Instructional Development Center, Queen's University, personal communication of the short CPQ version used in the paper D. Bertrand and C. Knapper (1993) "Contextual Influences on Student's Approaches toLearning in Three Academic Departments", Queens University, Kingston ON.
Ramsden, P. (1983) "The Lancaster Approaches to Studying and Course Perceptions Questionnaires: Lecturer's Handbook," Educational Methods Unit, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, OX3 0BP
Woods, D.R. (1991) "Issues in Implementation in an Otherwise Conventional Programme", Chapter 12 in "The Challenges of Problem-based Learning" D. Boud and G. Feletti, ed., Kogan Page, London, 122-129.
PBL.ZIP PBL in its Original WordPerfect Ver 5.1 Book Format
App.ZIP Resources in its Original Wordperfect Ver 5.1 Book Format
To help our students in our own program, we wrote the book "Problem-based Learning: how to gain the most from PBL," [D.R. Woods, 1994, D.R. Woods, Waterdown, distributed by McMaster University Bookstore, Hamilton ON Canada ISBN 0-9698725-0-X. Index and bibliography. 7"x9" paper, 170 pp.]. The book was self-published to keep the cost below $20. This way, we hoped that every student in any form of small group, self-directed, self-assessed PBL would find this a helpful, inexpensive guide for their new learning experiences.
Table of Contents of
"Problem-based Learning: How to gain the most from PBL"
1. Are you ready for change?
2. What is problem-based learning?
3. Problem solving skills.
4. What is small group, problem-based learning?
5. Group skills.
6. What is self-directed, interdependent, small group, problem-based learning?
7. Self-directed learning.
8. What is self-assessed, self-directed, interdependent, small group, problem-based learning?
9. Self-assessment skills.
10. Putting it all together.
Appendix, Student Feedback Forms and Annotated index.
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Prices excluding taxes and shipping and handling: for orders from Canada: $CAN 18.60; for all other orders: $US16.00
The above book has been very popular with teachers. Thank you for your interest and support. However, to help teachers get an idea about PBL, sample it, implement some form of PBL, we have written a separate book for teachers that:
- addresses many of the questions teachers have about implementing PBL;
- guides teachers in the use of "How to gain the most from PBL" to enrich their courses.
This book we call "Problem-based Learning: Helping your students gain the most from PBL" [D.R. Woods, 1995, D.R. Woods, Waterdown, Canada ISBN 0-9698725-1-8. Index and bibliography. 8½"x11" paper, 170 pp.]. - written for teachers to give them the process for implementing their personal style of PBL for their environment.
Table of Contents for
"Problem-based Learning: Helping your students gain the most from PBL"
1. Why PBL? Improving learning and selecting a version of PBL that is suitable for you
2. On being a coach/facilitator
3. What about processing skills used in PBL?
4. Issues about setting up small group, self directed, self assessed PBL
5. Questions and answers about assessment
6. How might I use the companion book "How to gain the most from PBL"
7. Literature resources for PBL
This book was published in late 1994, revised in 1995, sent to about 40 educators for comments and is now revised (1996) and available free via the WWW. Sample, browse, copy and use any of this book that you want. We would appreciate receiving comments and suggestions for improving it.
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• The book "Problem-based Learning: resources to gain the most from PBL," [D.R. Woods, Waterdown, ON, Canada, (1995) ISBN 0-9698725-2-6. Index and bibliography, 8½"x11" paper, 200 pp.] - written for teachers and instructional development people to give the how to details for most issues that students and teachers encounter in implementing a PBL program. This gives nitty-gritty, how-to details. This was initially published as part of the teacher's guide in 1994. It was expanded and revised in 1995 and sent out to about 40 educators for comments and suggestions. The book has been subsequently revised in 1996.
Table of contents for
"Problem-based Learning: Resources to gain the most from PBL"
B. How to... run the core "processing" skills workshops
C. How to... run the enrichment "processing" skills workshops
D. How to... set up courses and course objectives
E. How to... select instruments for assessment and program evaluation
F. How to... assess
G. Table of contents of related books
Author index
Annotated index
Availability:
Contact Don Woods for details. woodsdr@mcmaster.ca