Problem-Based Learning : A Research Perspective on Learning Interactions

by Evensen, Dorothy H.; Hmelo, Cindy E.; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Koschmann, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780805826449
• ISBN10: 0805826440
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume collects recent studies conducted within the area of medical education that investigate two of the critical components of problem-based curricula--the group meeting and self-directed learning--and demonstrates that understanding these complex phenomena is critical to the operation of this innovative curriculum. It is the editors' contention that it is these components of problem-based learning that connect the initiating "problem" with the process of effective "learning." Revealing how this occurs is the task taken on by researchers contributing to this volume. The studies include use of self-reports, interviews, observations, verbal protocols, and micro-analysis to find ways into the psychological processes and sociological contexts that constitute the world of problem-based learning.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Howard Barrows
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
Cindy E. Hmelo
Dorothy H. Evensen
Part 1: The Group Meeting
Factors Affecting Small-Group Tutorial Learning: A Review of Research	19	(34)
Henk G. Schmidt
Jos H. C. Moust
When Is a Problem-Based Tutorial Not a Tutorial? Analyzing the Tutor's Role in the Emergence of a Learning Issue	53	(22)
Timothy Koschmann
Phillip Glenn
Melinda Conlee
Whose Group Is It, Anyway? Equity of Student Discourse in Problem-Based Learning (PBL)	75	(34)
JodyLee Estrada Duek
How Are We Doing? Methods of Assessing Group Processing in a Problem-Based Learning Context	109	(28)
Jeff Faidley
Dorothy H. Evensen
Jill Salisbury-Glennon
Jerry Glenn
Cindy E. Hmelo
Five Readings of a Single Text: Transcript of a Videoanalysis Session	137	(30)
Timothy Koschmann
Dorothy H. Evensen
Groups in Problem-Based Learning (PBL): Essential Elements in Theory and Practice	167	(18)
Ann C. Myers Kelson
Linda H. Distlehorst
Commentary on Part I: Process and Product in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Research	185	(14)
Carl Bereiter
Marlene Scardamalia
Part 2: Self-Directed Learning
Evaluating the Evidence That Problem-Based Learners are Self-Directed Learners: A Review of the Literature	199	(28)
Phyllis Blumberg
Becoming Self-Directed Learners: Strategy Development in Problem-Based Learning	227	(24)
Cindy E. Hmelo
Xiaodong Lin
What Directs Self-Directed Learning in a Problem-Based Curriculum?	251	(12)
Diana H. J. M. Dolmans
Henk G. Schmidt
Observing Self-Directed Learners in a Problem-Based Learning Context: Two Case Studies	263	(36)
Dorothy H. Evensen
A Commentary on Self-Directed Learning	299	(16)
Barry J. Zimmerman
Robert B. Lebeau
Epilogue: Assessment of Students for Proactive Lifelong Learning	315	(32)
Ann C. Myers Kelson
Author Index	347	(8)
Subject Index	355	(4)
Contributors	359