Problem-based learning : an approach to medical education
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...The general idea in PBL, as initially developed by Barrows and Tamblyn (1980), typically involves students working on problems in small groups of five to 12, with the assistance of a tutor....
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...Such methodologies are highly individualistic, doing little to promote collaborative learning among peers (Barrows & Tamblyn 1980)....
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...The learner in the PBL approach is an active participant in determining learning outcomes, how sessions are conducted and what is taught (Barrows & Tamblyn 1980)....
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...…can be traced to the medical schools at Case Western Reserve University (in the 1950s) and McMaster University in Canada (in the 1960s) was devised as a way to educate physicians to use their content knowledge in the context of real patients (Barrows and Tamblyn, 1980; Boud and Feletti, 1998)....
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...Group evaluations are often based on students’ comments and ratings of each other’s contributions to assignments and products or are based on highly streamlined versions of the written and verbal feedback strategies used in smaller-class PBL (Barrows and Tamblyn, 1980)....
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