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A Study of the Efficacy of Project
Based Learning in Database Design
Saisunee [email protected]
Nakhonratchasima Rajabhat University
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Tell me—and I will forget.
Show me—and I may remember.
Involve me—and I will understand.
Confucius (450 B.C.)
Why Project base learning?
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Lecture
Reading
Audio-visual
Demonstration
Discussion group
Practice by doing
Teach others
Involve Me and I Will Understand
Average Retention Rate
5%
10%
20%
30%
50%
75%
90%
From: National Training Laboratories, Bethel Maine
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Why Project base learning?
• Student could not analysis and design the real world project.
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What is Project-Based Learning?
Studentsactively engaged in learning
Teachersas facilitators and coaches
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Students Move
from knowledge of facts, terms and content
. . to understanding processes
from theory . . to application of theory
from teacher dependent . . to empowered
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Objective
To investigate the effectiveness of project-based learning in database subject
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Methodology
50 IT students who enrolled in Database subject
IAnalysis and conceptual design Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
II. Relational database mapping Relational scheme and normalization
III. Database implementation Application
Problem Definition and Project Objective
Presentation and documentation
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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.
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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
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