Glossary of PBL

Chakiyeva Dinara

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GLOSSARY

21st century skills - comprise skills, abilities, and learning dispositions that have been identified as being required for success in 21st century society and workplaces by educators, business leaders, academics, and governmental agencies. This is part of a growing international movement focusing on the skills required for students to master in preparation for success in a rapidly changing, digital society.

Assessment – a variety of methods used to determine where students are in their learning before, during and after instruction (exam, task, test)

Authentic assessments is a set of methods or techniques for assessing the academic achievement of a student that includes activities requiring the application of acquired knowledge and skills to real-world situations and that is often seen as an alternative to standardized testing.

Checklist is a list of features and functions which we can use as baseline for testing.

Coherence logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts.

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following :

Essential question:

• Is open ended; that is, it typically will not have a single, final, and correct answer.

• Is thought provoking and intellectually engaging, often sparking discussion and debate.

• Calls for higher order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, prediction. It cannot be effectively answered by recall alone.

• Points toward important, transferable ideas within (and sometimes across) disciplines.

• Raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry.

• Requires support and justification, not just an answer.

• Recurs over time; that is, the question can and should be revisited again and again.

Feedback – process in which the effect or output of an action is 'returned' (fed-back) to modify the next action.

Inquiry – a seeking or request for truth, information, knowledge.

Open-ended question is a question that can’t be answered by a simple "yes" or "no," which require more thought and more than a simple one-word answer.

Project - a study of a particular subject done over a period of time, especially by students.

Project-based learning (PBL) is a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning important knowledge and 21st century skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and learning tasks.

Project-based learning is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution, students will typically be assigned a project or series of projects that require them to use diverse skills—such as researching, writing, interviewing, collaborating, or public speaking—to produce various work products, such as research papers, scientific studies, public-policy proposals, multimedia presentations, video documentaries, art installations.

Self-assessment is a form of diagnostic assessment which involves students assessing themselves.

Student Voice and Choice Students make some decisions about the project, including how they work and what they create.

Technology - is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings.

The driving question is the question you pose to students in order to get them to investigate a problem or process.