Benefits of Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning actively engages students in a long-lasting love for learning that invigorates them to have a profound personal connection to their educational experience.
A Deeper Learning Experience
After students complete a PBL project, there is much deeper comprehension and greater recognition of content knowledge acquired. Furthermore, students are better equipped to apply what they know to different circumstances following PBL.
A Greater Sense of Purpose
A successful Project-Based Learning project can be incredibly transformative for students. Subsequent to observing a real-world impact, students experience a sense of motivation and interest to improve their communities.
Rewarding Teacher Relationships
During Project-Based Learning projects, teachers work very closely with actively engaged students doing meaningful work. Through this unique experience, students and teachers share the rediscovered joy of learning through the common interest of enhancing one's community.
Increased Engagement
within one's community
Oftentimes while students participate in PBL projects, there is real-world relevance for further extensive and relevant learning. Through completing a PBL project, students are capable of solving problems that are meaningful to them and their communities.
Moreover, this initial experience while engaging within a student's community is likely to provoke students to further provide support for one's community.
Exposure to adults
and careers
Project-Based Learning projects enable students to communicate with many different adults, businesses, organizations, and prominent members of their community to facilitate them to acquire potential career interests.
Success Skills
After completing a PBL project, students gain numerous skills that are invaluable in today’s workplace and in daily life. These fundamental life abilities include how to take leadership, work responsibly, solving dilemmas, collaborating in teams, and communicating ideas.
Creativity and Technology
While participating in a PBL project, students work with a lot of stimulating and intriguing technology. This aspect greatly motivates students by allowing them to use tools that they enjoy using. These creative and engaging technological tools are valuable from research and collaboration to product creation and presentation.
Research Studies that confirm PBL's success
Impact of PBL on Student Achievement
In this study, researchers in Michigan determine the effectiveness of Project-Based Learning in high-poverty communities.
PBL and 21st Century Success Skills
This summary concludes how PBL promotes students to achieve competence in critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration.
PBL Helps Students Become Better Decision Makers
This rigorous study illustrates PBL's power to improve students' reasoning and decision-making about unfamiliar issues.
PBL Demishes Disparities
A study about the correlation between PBL and the reduction of the discrepancy in achievement between low and high socio-economic schools/students.
Reflection on the content understanding and knowledge gained helps students solidify what they have learned and enables them to think about how it might apply elsewhere, beyond the project.
Benefits of PBL in Language Learning
Experiential Learning as well as PBL comes with many benefits for those learning a new language.
1) Facilitates personal growth
2) Permits students to learn how to adapt to social change
3) Differences in learning abilities can be taken into account
4) Allows learners needs and pedagogical considerations to be responded to
By conforming explicit information to implicit information, students learn how to acquire new knowledge and feel comfortable and confident with what they don’t know. They are proven to have a better ability to be motivated, adapt, and become more autonomous.