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      This School is Made for Students: Students’ Perspectives on PBL

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          Project-based learning (PBL) is an increasingly popular pedagogical method in K-12 settings. Students exposed to this approach have demonstrated higher academic performance than their peers who have not been exposed, as well as positive rates of self-efficacy and other non-academic skills. Using qualitative methods, including observation, artifact collection, interviews, and focus groups, this research explores biology students’ perceptions of their project-based learning experiences. In particular, we leverage a student focus group to understand how students perceive their learning experience. In this focus group, students perceive project-based learning as a positive influence on their agency, self-efficacy, and learning experience as a whole. Significantly, students’ accounts reveal how their positive perceptions of PBL correspond with purposefully designed elements of project-based learning. This article offers implications for teachers and educational leaders interested in how students perceive project-based learning and how they might integrate project-based learning into their classrooms.

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                Contributors
                nturcotte@fgcu.edu
                Journal
                J Form Des Learn
                J Form Des Learn
                Journal of Formative Design in Learning
                Springer International Publishing (Cham )
                2509-8039
                6 June 2022
                : 1-10
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.255962.f, ISNI 0000 0001 0647 2963, Department of Leadership, Technology and Research, , Florida Gulf Coast University, ; Fort Myers, FL USA
                [2 ]GRID grid.255962.f, ISNI 0000 0001 0647 2963, Department of Teacher Preparation Programs, , Florida Gulf Coast University, ; Fort Myers, FL USA
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8028-2399
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1477-2111
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6214-7484
                Article
                66
                10.1007/s41686-022-00066-0
                9169957
                34fcba0b-7752-4ce5-ac09-44431599e00a
                © Association for Educational Communications & Technology 2022

                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                : 24 May 2022
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                project-based learning,qualitative research,student voice and choice,student-centered learning

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