Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?

By C. Hmelo‐Silver. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006) (2007, background): “For example, problems in medical PBL present students with rich sets of patient data to analyze (Barrows, 2000; Hmelo-Silver, 2004).”
Lessons from Inferentialism for Statistics Education (2011, background): “…well-known approaches to improve coherence from a student perspective and foster a more holistic approach have been problem-based learning (Hmelo-Silver, 2004), projectbased learning (Barron, 1998), the problem-posing approach (Klaassen, 1995; Kortland, 2001), and inquiry-based learning…”
The impact of students' conceptions of constructivist assumptions on academic achievement and drop‐out (2007, background): “After this period of self-study, students share their findings, elaborate on knowledge acquired, and have an opportunity to correct misconceptions (Schmidt, 1983; Hmelo-Silver, 2004).”
Productive failure in mathematical problem solving (2010, background): “While there exists a substantive amount of research examining students solving complex problems with the provision of various support structures and scaffolds (e.g., Cho and Jonassen 2002; Ge and Land 2003; Hmelo-Silver 2004 ), my earlier work on productive failure (Kapur 2006, 2008) examined stude”
Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning (2007, background): “Critical elements for effective CSCL include the development of instructional goals that target higher-order thinking skills and complex problem solving (Dirckinck-Holmfeld, 2002; Hmelo-Silver, 2004).”
The Effects of a Collaborative Problem-based Learning Experience on Students’ Motivation in Engineering Capstone Courses (2013, methodology): “While the use of realistic ill-structured problems is a hallmark of PBL (Hmelo-Silver, 2004), the use of this approach for in-major courses such as the design courses studied here”
Understanding Complex Systems: Some Core Challenges (2006, background): “Teachers need to understand how to use guided discovery approaches such as problem and project-based learning (Barron et al., 1998; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Hmelo, Holton, & Kolodner, 2000; Hmelo-Silver, 2004; Krajcik et al., 1998; Vick, Azevedo, & Hofman, 2005).”
Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development (2019, background): “However, at any stage of development, learners benefit from strategically placed direct instruction, feedback, and critical questions that guide their learning (Hmelo-Silver, 2004).”
Problem-Based Learning in Science Education (2009, background): “PBL students do as well as their counterparts from traditional classrooms on national exams, but are in fact better practitioners of their professions (Hmelo-Silver, 2004).”
Problem-Based Learning: Does Accounting Education Need it? (2012, background): “Similarly, Hmelo-Silver (2004) outlined the goals of PBL as helping students develop flexible knowledge, effective problem-solving skills, self-directed learning skills, effective collaboration skills, and intrinsic motivation.”
Self-Directed Learning in Problem-Based Learning and its Relationships with Self-Regulated Learning (2008, methodology): “Findings with respect to SDL will be discussed in the review section and, regarding PBL’s other goals, see Norman and Schmidt (1992) and Hmelo-Silver (2004) for a detailed discussion.”
Evaluating the metacognitive awareness inventory using empirical factor-structure evidence (2018, background): “…with some studies presenting evidence or cogent arguments that students who regulate their cognition tend to perform well in problembased learning (Hmelo-Silver 2004; Rozencwajg 2003), expert learning (Bransford et al. 2000; Sternberg 1998), and overall academic achievement (Peverly et al. 2003;…”
Problem-based learning - A proposal for structuring PBL and its implications for learning among students in an undergraduate management degree program (2018, methodology): “complex nature of learning (Savin-Baden and Major, 2004) and values the practical experience of learning because, as noted by Hmelo-Silver (2004), it is based on the educational approaches of William Heard Kilpatrick and John Dewey.”
Characteristics of Problems for Problem-Based Learning: The Students’ Perspective (2011, background): “They typically describe situations or phenomena set in real-life contexts, which require students to explain or resolve the presenting issues (Hmelo-Silver, 2004).”
Protective Factors at School: Reciprocal Effects Among Adolescents’ Perceptions of the School Environment, Engagement in Learning, and Hope (2011, background): “Problem- or project-based learning attempts to engage students more deeply in the learning process by providing them the opportunity make choices and more actively regulate their own learning while working on real-life problems (Blumenfeld et al. 1991) and has been found to promote academic skills a”