Do students understand what PBL actually involves?
Students were initially asked to rate their understanding of what they think PBL involves. As shown in Figure 1, most students thought they had an average, good or excellent understanding of what PBL involves, with only 7% of the students surveyed admitting to a poor or fair understanding of PBL. Interestingly, when the students were then asked to describe PBL, only 21% could accurately explain what PBL involves. Another 56% of the students surveyed had a basic understanding of PBL, with most of the responses mentioning ‘problem solving’ or ‘group work’. So, while the majority of the students had a basic understanding of PBL after completing the exercise, 23% of students were still unsure of what PBL involves and this is likely to have affected their reaction to the PBL exercise. While students were given a brief overview of PBL theory by their demonstrators at the start of the practical, the effectiveness of that introduction is likely to depend on the understanding of PBL by the part
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