What follows is our group's answers to the questions raised in the Ivestigating PBL exercise on Thursday, June 13, 1996.
Students improve their ability to read, write, and think.
Their level of understanding allows them to apply information more readily to real-life problems. Teaching methods are restructured from lecture format where the instructor is the source of packaging knowledge to a format where the instructor facilitates the students search for solutions. Initial time spent to develop a PBL course is greater than that required for lecture format courses but this will decrease over time. Student time will also increase since students will be required to access resources and synthesize information to solve the problem. If has been amply demonstrated that PBL can enhance learning by developing students' abilities to search for knowledge and apply it to solve problems.