Prepared by:

Nursaleha Binti Jamaludin

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Prepared for:

En. Mohamad Hisyam Ismail

Summary
Author : Ingfei Chen
Year : 2014
Source : 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

GENERALLY AGREE THAT PBL CAN CLOSE THE GAPS OF

STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE SUBJECT

BUT

WHAT

HOW

WHERE

WHEN

WHO

Comments / Opinions
Article
: 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
68
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

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

Article
:
Indoor or outdoor
Applicable and practical
Using of PBIS unit
Opinion
:
Applicable and flexible in implementation

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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