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A Study of the Efficacy of Project

Based Learning in Database Design

Saisunee Jabjonea1102923@hotmail.com

Nakhonratchasima Rajabhat University

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Tell me—and I will forget.

Show me—and I may remember.

Involve me—and I will understand.

Confucius (450 B.C.)

Why Project base learning?

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Lecture

Reading

Audio-visual

Demonstration

Discussion group

Practice by doing

Teach others

Involve Me and I Will Understand

Average Retention Rate

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From: National Training Laboratories, Bethel Maine

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Why Project base learning?

• Student could not analysis and design the real world project.

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What is Project-Based Learning?

Studentsactively engaged in learning

Teachersas facilitators and coaches

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Characteristics of PBL

• Organizes standards-based curriculum around a meaningful open-ended problem or project with more than one approach or answer

• Encourages active inquiry and higher-order thinking skills

• Engages students as stakeholders• Creates a learning environment where

teachers coach, guide inquiry and facilitate deeper levels of understanding

• Concludes with realistic products

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Project Based Learning

• emphasizes learning activities that are:– student-centered

• They become the problem solver, decisions maker, investigator, documentarian

• They take on the role of those working in a particular discipline

– long-term• Projects can be a variety of lengths• What they are not is one-day teacher centered

lessons

– integrated with real world issues and practices and have compelling questions

• Significance beyond the classroom walls

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Project Based Learning

• Develops real world skills – many of the skills are those desired by

today's employer such as:• the ability to work well with others • make thoughtful decisions• take initiative• solve complex problems.

• Allows for a variety of learning styles – accessible for all learners

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The Students Move

from following orders . . to carrying out self-directed

learning activities from memorizing and repeating

. . To discovering, integrating and presenting

from listening and reacting . . To communicating and

taking responsibility

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The Students Move

from knowledge of facts, terms and content

. . to understanding processes

from theory . . to application of theory

from teacher dependent . . to empowered

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Objective

To investigate the effectiveness of project-based learning in database subject

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Methodology

50 IT students who enrolled in Database subject

IAnalysis and conceptual design Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

II. Relational database mapping Relational scheme and normalization

III. Database implementation Application

Problem Definition and Project Objective

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Results

• more experience in analysis (84.62%) • collaborate with colleagues on solving common tasks (53.85%) • more exchange and discussion (84.62%)• However, they have far less experience with find the learning

resource (only 23.07% are familiar with learning by themself) and using the

Internet to find peers for solving problems (only 38.46% answered

positively). • Majority of them (53.85%) reported that they have learned as

effectively as in traditional way, and 30.77% reported that they have learned

more than in traditional way.

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Conclusion

• Project-based learning helps students develop skills for living in a knowledge-based, highly technological society.

• Students make effective use of IT as they produce a product, presentation, or performance

• IT is integrated into the learning – students are NOT learning IT skills in isolation

• technology is used to promote critical thinking and communication

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