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摘要

Project-based learning provides a way of learning that seems to be particularly attractive to students who are struggling with conventional school assignments. In the study we described in our 2002 Journal of Research on Technology in Education article, Moments of Joy, we found that at-risk students became active learners willing to engage in cognitively challenging tasks when presented with a PBL opportunity. Like many other educators, we believe PBL offers positive effects in cognitive, metacognitive, affective, and social domains. Good outcomes seem to occur almost without special effort: increased student involvement, persistence, and motivation; opening up a new conceptual space for students who begin to see themselves as learners; and benefits in understanding.