What Is a Good PBL Problem

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What Is a Good PBL Problem?
Institute for TransformingUndergraduate Education
University of Delaware
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Good PBL Problems

• relate to real world, motivate students.
• require decision-making or judgments.
• are multi-part, multi-stage.
• are designed for group-solving.
• pose open-ended initial questions that encourage
  discussion in intial stage(s).
• incorporate course content objectives, higher
  order thinking, other skills.

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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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Rubric to Evaluate PBL Problems
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• Take a few minutes in your group to discuss the
  problem you have just experienced what are the
  strengths and weaknesses of this problem?
• Apply the rubric to the Portal Systems problem.