Transcript Project Based Learning

A Study of the Efficacy of Project Based
Learning in Database Design
Saisunee Jabjone
[email protected]
Nakhonratchasima Rajabhat University
1
Why Project base learning?
Tell me—and I will forget.
Show me—and I may remember.
Involve me—and I will understand.
Confucius (450 B.C.)
2
Involve Me and I Will Understand
Average Retention Rate
Lecture
5%
Reading
Audio-visual
Demonstration
10%
20%
30%
Discussion group
Practice by doing
Teach others
From: National Training Laboratories, Bethel Maine
50%
75%
90%
3
Why Project base learning?
• Student could not analysis and
design the real world project.
4
What is Project-Based Learning?
Students
actively engaged in learning
Teachers
as facilitators and coaches
5
Characteristics of PBL
• Organizes standards-based curriculum around a
meaningful open-ended problem or project with
more than one approach or answer
• Encourages active inquiry and higher-order
thinking skills
• Engages students as stakeholders
• Creates a learning environment where teachers
coach, guide inquiry and facilitate deeper levels
of understanding
• Concludes with realistic products
6
Project Based Learning
• emphasizes learning activities that are:
– student-centered
• They become the problem solver, decisions maker,
investigator, documentarian
• They take on the role of those working in a particular
discipline
– long-term
• Projects can be a variety of lengths
• What they are not is one-day teacher centered lessons
– integrated with real world issues and
practices and have compelling questions
• Significance beyond the classroom walls
7
Project Based Learning
• Develops real world skills
– many of the skills are those desired by
today's employer such as:
• the ability to work well with others
• make thoughtful decisions
• take initiative
• solve complex problems.
• Allows for a variety of learning styles
– accessible for all learners
8
The Students Move
 from following orders
. . to carrying out self-directed
learning activities
 from memorizing and repeating
. . To discovering, integrating and
presenting
 from listening and reacting
. . To communicating and taking
responsibility
9
The Students Move
 from knowledge of facts, terms and
content
. . to understanding processes
 from theory
. . to application of theory
 from teacher dependent
. . to empowered
10
Objective
To investigate the effectiveness of
project-based learning in database
subject
12
Methodology
50 IT students who enrolled in Database subject
Problem Definition and
Project Objective
IAnalysis and conceptual design
Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
II. Relational database mapping
Relational scheme and normalization
III. Database implementation
Application
Presentation and documentation
13
EVV Sale Ticket System
WebLink
M
1
Categories
M
1
Sections
Modules
1
1
M
Content_
Frontpage
1
UserTypes
1
Food
M
1
Content
M
1
Content_rating
M
Comments
M
Poll_Date
1
M
M
Exercise
Poll_Data
Components
1
1
M
1
1
M
M
M
Template
Menu
M
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
User
1
Menu
1
1
1
1
Template
Position
1
M
M
M
1
1
Nutrition
Message
Health
Banner
Activities
Polls
EVV Sale Ticket System
Results
•
•
•
•
more experience in analysis (84.62%)
collaborate with colleagues on solving common tasks (53.85%)
more exchange and discussion (84.62%)
However, they have far less experience with find the learning resource
(only 23.07% are familiar with learning by themself) and using the Internet
to find peers for solving problems (only 38.46% answered positively).
• Majority of them (53.85%) reported that they have learned as effectively
as in traditional way, and 30.77% reported that they have learned more than
in traditional way.
17
Conclusion
• Project-based learning helps students develop
skills for living in a knowledge-based, highly
technological society.
• Students make effective use of IT as they produce
a product, presentation, or performance
• IT is integrated into the learning – students are
NOT learning IT skills in isolation
• technology is used to promote critical thinking
and communication
18
THANK YOU