There is a new Best Evidence in Brief (they have a blog now too) and this working paper will be of interest to a lot of people:
A working paper from MDRC builds on and updates a literature review of project-based learning (PBL) published in 2000. Focused primarily on articles and studies that have emerged in the last 17 years, the working paper discusses the principles of PBL, how PBL has been used in K-12 settings, the challenges teachers face in implementing it, how school and local factors influence its implementation, and what is known about its effectiveness in improving learning outcomes.The report suggests that the evidence for PBL’s effectiveness in improving student outcomes is “promising, but not proven.” The biggest challenge to evaluating the effectiveness of PBL, the researchers suggest, is a lack of consensus about the design of PBL and how it fits in with…
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