Double Entry Journal #15

1. Give an example of an authentic form of assessment the students engaged in a PBL performed well on?

• Standardized testing
• When measuring the basic acadmeic subject profiency, standardized tesing shows that students who participated in the PBL scored higher than their peers who were traditionally educated.

2. How does project based learning promote intrinsic motivation?

• Through the PBL students are given choices, and this differentiation allows students to develop their own interest and pursue deeper learning. By being able to develop their own project, they can really incorporate things they love into their final project.

3. What do students who experience PBL do better than student who receive traditional direct instruction?

• Students learn more about responsibility, independence, and discipline when creating the PBL. They also learn accountability. Since the PBL is completed by them, it truly shows their work and their thinking process, and students take pride in getting to show off something that becomes so personal to them.

4. How does PBL align with John Dewey's philosophy of education?

• John Dewey proposed that learning by doing has great benefit in shaping students' learning. The PBLs are just that; learning by doing.

5. Why do our assessment practices need to change if we are going to prepare students for the 21st century?

• When students enter the workforce, they will be judged on their performance.Not only will the outcomes matter, they will need to be able to work collaboratively, plan, and organize. The PBLs teach children to do exactly that, so we are helping to better prepare them for their life after school through the use of PBLs.