The Development and Effectiveness of Implementing Problem-Based Learning: A RECSAM Experience Dr Warabhorn Preechaporn, Mr Teoh Boon Tat & Dr Leong Chee.

The Development and Effectiveness of Implementing

Problem-Based Learning: A RECSAM Experience

Dr Warabhorn Preechaporn, Mr Teoh Boon Tat & Dr Leong Chee KinMathematics Education SpecialistsSEAMEO RECSAM

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IAB-Genting 10 April 2012

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1. PBL – the Processes 2. PBL4C – the Principles3. Context Developing4. Sample Context using

PBL4C5. Q&A

Overview Today

PBL - History

• Started in Medical Schools, 1960s• Terminologies

• Cases• Scenarios

PBL – a Medical Model & Context

Problem

Case 1 Scenario 1 Scenario 2



• Fever• Persistent Blood Cough

• TB

• Lung Cancer

• Whooping cough

• Blood test results • Chest x-Ray results

PhysicalExamination

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

PBL – Example Model

Problem Case Scenario 1 Scenario 2Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Among the Main Processes of a PBL lesson: Understanding the Context Identifying the Problem at hand Gathering the information given unique to the

problem Procuring extra information in the view of finding a

solution to the problem Generating possible solutions Communicating, accommodating, selecting and

executing the best solution Making a presentation of the solution Evaluation – Self, Peer, Leader & Expert

(Finkle & Torp, 1995; Lambros, 2002;Wee, 2004; Teoh & Wara, 2011)

Problem-Based Learning

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PBL - Generic Principles1. Based on Real Life Problems2. Student-centred 3. Small teams of 3-4 students4. Cooperative & collaborative5. Inquiry based 6. Facilitated in various degrees7. Self directed 8. Self access

9. Constructivistic10. Individual accountability11. Team responsibility 12. Life long skills 13. Promotes problem solving skills 14. Promotes creative thinking 15. Applies content in context realistically16. Authentic assessment

- self / peer / leader / teacher assessment

PBL - Generic Principles

PBL4C is a PBL model integrating the 4 Core Areas of Learning:

1. multi-disciplinary content knowledge 2. multi-dimensional skills3. appropriate thought & 4. universal harmonious values.

PBL4C

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Maths Contents

HOTS SkillsProduce

IntelligentStudents

ProduceIntelligentStudents

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ly

Universal Harmonious

Values

Multi Disciplinary

Contents

Appropriate

Thought

Multi Dimensional

Skills

NurtureWise

Learners

NurtureWise

Learners

PBL4C - Principles

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1. Back to the Future2. Designing the Prime Minister’s

Garden3. Making Wise Decisions4. Nurturing Creativity in Building

a New Island Nation in SEA5. Establishing & Sustaining the

New IAB Campus

PBL4C Context

Overview of a PBL4C lesson

Back to the Past

Fund Managers

Transport to the future

The changes

Scenario1

Scenario2

Scenario3

CONTEXTPROBLEM

Title: Back to the Future

Global warming has been blamed for extraordinary phenomena happening recently. All of sudden, you are all transported back to the past to a time determined by the Time Machine!

In that moment of time in the

Context Problem

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You are a team of professional FUND MANAGERS employed by your government to manage a hedge fund with a capital of US$100 mil. You are tasked to plan your investments well and build a portfolio of what to invest which will bring benefits to your country. Decide on who to be your team leader.

Charges For every transaction that you made, you will

have to pay a commission of 0.2% of the value of the transaction.

Note Remember you will have to make a report to the

board of director tomorrow morning.

Scenario 1 – Fund Manager

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All of a sudden, due to the unstable Time Machine, you and your team are transported to another moment in time. This time exactly 5 months back to the future from where you are. In that moment of time back to the future…

You were thinking this sudden change in time provides a great opportunity to check on your portfolio. Buy, sell or hold?

ChargesHowever because of inflation and rising cost, the

commission has now gone up to 0.25% for each transaction done.

Scenario 2 – Time Machine

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The world has become much warmer due to the forest fires and haze. Unexpectedly again, the whole team is transported 3 months back to the future from where you are.

Incidentally, it is the day when you have to give a final report to your President/Prime Minister of your country.

Scenario 3 – The changes

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In the report include a reward proposal for your team as professional managers of the hedge fund, 18% of the profit will be paid as bonus to the team. The proportion of the bonus to be divided, if there is a profit, will be decided among the team members in terms of productivity, contributions, leadership, teamwork, patience, creativity, decision making, exceptional skills, etc. Decide how you are going to do this!


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However, if your team has not been successful in the investment, you will have to face the consequences … you may need to talk to Mr. Donald Trump!

ChargesThe commission charges remain at 0.25% per transaction.


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Designing a Garden

Job Applicatio

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Drawing the Plan

Present the Design

Financial Crisis

Scenario1

Scenario2

Scenario3

Scenario4

CONTEXTPROBLEM

Title: Designing the Prime Minister’s Garden

The Prime Minister has a garden in his official guest residence where important foreign dignitaries stay. He has invited 3 international renowned landscape companies to design and bid for the project through tender to make the garden a national icon well known internationally incorporating local architecture.

Apply for the jobs advertised by the companies by giving your resume stating your skills and interests that suit the job you are applying for. When you are employed, you will need to work as a team in the company to design & draw the garden plan.

Context Problem

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Local cultural-architectural features need to be incorporated in the design. Calculate the cost and decide how much your company will quote the PM for the project.

You are required to present your team’s design and price quotation to the PM and his panel for consideration and selection. Bear in mind that the PM is a science and math wizard and any structure and design related to the subjects always excites him and may affect the outcome of the selection!

Context Problem

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By the way, the PM is also sentimental towards nature and any design that features sustainability of nature is a definite advantage.

Context Problem

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The 3 companies invited are: Majestic Gardens Asia Co. B Big Landscape Co. RECreation Themes International Ltd.Among the jobs advertised on their company

websites are:

Project Manager, Creative Designer, Botanist, ICT Expert, Mathematician, Landscape Specialist, Accountant, Culture Expert, Environmentalist

Scenario 1 – Job Application

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Write your resume indicating your areas of expertise to secure one of the jobs and send it to the company that you have selected through email to [email protected]. Application closes tomorrow. Your resume should include the following information:

Company applied to Job applied for Your own skills & values that you have that you

think will get you the job Other skills & values that you would like to be

given training for the job Other relevant information

Scenario 1 – Job Application

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mailto:[email protected]

Your company that hires you requires you to work as a team on this garden project. The PM’s garden is rectangular in shape and is almost the same size as RECSAM Park. Design your garden using the park as your guide to visualize your plans. Research the local plants, local architecture and the idea on sustainable development, and then design the garden to capture the PM’s passions in Science, Mathematics and nature.

You will need to draw the plan of the garden and it has to be drawn according to scale. Remember you will need the drawing to make a presentation to the PM later. The following are the features set by the PM that you have to fulfill:

Scenario 2 – Drawing the Plan

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1. A fountain in the centre of a circular pond. There is a concentric foot path surrounding the pond.

2. Some moving structures and they are always moving at equidistance from one corner of the rectangular area.

3. Another foot path is built in such a way that when you stand at the centre of the foot path you are always the same distance from two of the structures in (2).

4. Two rows of flower bed which are always at a distance 10 metres from the centre of the foot path in (3).

5. You can add in other suitable features to allow your company to stand a higher chance of winning the award!

6. Equip the garden with appropriate plants and architectural design.

Scenario 2 – Drawing the Plan

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The world financial crisis strikes, as always unexpectedly. The PM decides to have a cut in the budget allocation for the garden project. There will be a reduction of 40% of the price quoted.

Review the design and materials used. Recalculate the cost, and finally the new price. Reevaluate the feasibility of the project.

Resubmit your design, costing and pricing to the PM.

Scenario 3 – Financial Crisis

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Make a presentation of your garden design and price quotation to the Prime Minister and the members of his selection panel.

Scenario 4 – Presenting the Desgin

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Medical report

Maximise the Benefit

Unpredictable e situation

Scenario1

Scenario2

CONTEXTPROBLEM

Title: Making Wise Decisions

You are the siblings of a family. Today your father just receives the medical check-up report from his doctor.

He is given only 4 days as preparation to leave for some very urgent matter in Japan for one month, all funded by the hospital. Your mother will be following to take care of his needs.

Your parents will be depending on you to take charge of the family for a month.

Context Problem

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Your parents gave you RM2,000 (Two thousand Ringgit) as expenditure (food, groceries, utilities, house rental, electricity, transportation, and so on) for the time they are not around.

Your responsibility is to plan to use this amount of money effectively in one month. You must explain your plan to your parents before they leave their house. They want to know how you can maximize the benefit of the amount of money.

Scenario 2 – Maximise the benefit

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Life is unpredictable. While you are watching TV and expecting your parents to return tomorrow, the news announcer reports that a huge earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan.

The airport will be closed and your parents will not be back for at least another week.

What are your plans? How do you further take care of your

siblings?

Scenario 3 – Unpredictable

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Building a new

nation’s Capital City

3D design 2D map Instruct todestructEvaluation

Scenario1

Scenario2

Scenario3

Scenario4

CONTEXTPROBLEM

Title: Nurturing Creativity in Building a New Island Nation in Southeast Asia

A new island the size of Penang has emerged from the South China Sea as a result of changes to the earth. You are the founders of the newest island nation in this 21st Century.

As the leaders of your nation, you are responsible as a team to plan, design and develop your beloved country making its development sustainable in all its glory for the rest of the world to model.

Context Problem

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Being the new nation’s founders, build a 3-D model of your visionary capital city for sustainable & responsible living of your beloved fellow citizens. State your reasons for having such plans.

These reasons may one day form the framework of your country’s

constitution.

Scenario 1 - 3D design

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Scenario 1 – 3D Construction

If one of the structures you built is the size of the building block you are now in, draw a map of the capital city of your country on a piece of mahjong paper, according to scale.

Calculate the actual dimension of the other structures. Label the measurements accordingly on the map.

Showcase your model city to your visiting foreign delegations.

Scenario 2 - 2D map

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Scenario 2 – 3D to 2D map

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Scenario 2 – Presentation to dignitaries

Evaluate each other’s plan of a model country bearing in mind local & global sustainable and responsible development using the assessment form given to you.

Scenario 3 - Evaluation

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Scenario 3 – City Evaluation

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Capital City EvaluationA Model City for World Sustainable and Responsible Living.It is not easy to be a model city for the world to emulate. Search in detail and list down below all the great features of the city that can make the city a model for the world to follow.

Capital City EvaluationA Model City for World Sustainable and Responsible Living.It is not easy to be a model city for the world to emulate. Search in detail and list down below all the faults and weaknesses you can find in the city model.

Form 1

Form 2

Practising Critical Thinking – is it good ?

Read the instruction carefully on the piece of paper given to you.

Scenario 4 – Instruct to Destruct

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Follow this instruction precisely. You must make sure the city model be pushed down. Tear the map to pieces.Your Leader

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Scenario 4 – Instruct to Destruct

Consequences of inappropriate thoughts and values after much creativeness applied.

PBL4C, Cooperative and collaborative learning, & Education for Intranational and International Understanding (EIU)

1. PBL4C is a Learning in Context

Enhance cooperative spirit within a group, and collaborative spirit between groups

Patriotism-nationalism, andinternational collaboration

Education for Intranational, and International Understanding (EIU)

Global Themes

What have we learnt…

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Identifying & redefining values for creativity and sustaining entrepreneurship

Values are of 2 types: 1. constricted values – limited, restricted, pseudo

- eg cooperative spirit, nationalism2. universal values – unbound, boundless, real

- eg collaborative spirit, inter-nationalism Any practice of value is good… But if it is not universal enough, then it is not

good enough.


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Universal Peace Values

PBL4C, critical thinking and observation skills

In Scenario 3 – learners using Form 2 Practice Critical Thinking A critical person criticises Tends to look at weaknesses and faults Looks at the half empty rather than the half full The negative effects of Critical Thoughts can be

known precisely using observation skills – looking within and without Use introspection, self-reflection, meditation


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Critiquing skills More refined art of verbal, physical & mental

actions Building a more cultured civilisation

PBL4C, critical thinking and observation skills

In Scenario 3 – learners using Form 2 (Cont) A critical thought created in the mind is the

spark that leads to many conflicts among humanity

Nations promoting critical thinking as aHigher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) needs to be careful of what you want for your fellow citizens…

Conflicts, quarrels and wars start in the human mind

The best defense is to dose this spark as it arises right there in the mind…


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PBL4C, creative thinking and entrepreneurship

Problem-Based Learning the 4 Core Areas (PBL4C) enhances creative thinking

And thus opens wide the possibility of entrepreneurship

How? It is learning about the world outside,

realistically in the classroom Learner Empowerment is practised Mistakes made are not criticised Risk takers can be trained Practice to Expect the Unexpected Creativity can be trained


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Are values necessary for creativity and entrepreneurship?

Personal benefits and gains are ultimately the driving forces in creativity and entrepreneurship

Creativity and entrepreneurship can easily become Cunningness and dubious schemes if conscience and values are absent

Creativity and entrepreneurship can be sustained if guided by values … why?

Values cater to the customers, clients or users of the creative enterprises


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Are values necessary for creativity and entrepreneurship? (Cont)

In free enterprises & free markets, user choices determine the sustainability of any creative products or services

if there is no demand, supply ceases. Values integration in context learning enables

reasonable profits… Convention mathematics/business models teach

maximising profits… Which is more client- or user-centered? Which is more sustainable?


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Universal Harmonious Values :

Creativity and entrepreneurship should promote …- Making life easier- Moderation, not excessiveness- Fulfilling of needs rather than wants- Goodness, applying to all- Harmlessness, harmony & peacefulness


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PBL4C can be used to ‘inspire education … can be used for any subject or discipline,- just place your emphasis on your own subject

area promotes the learning of any subject focusing on

the 4 core areas :

1. multi-disciplinary content knowledge2. multi-dimensional skills3. appropriate thought & 4. universal harmonious values

more balanced, harmonised & holistic learning…harmonising the Head & the Heart…


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Value without content knowledge is blindness.

Knowledge without value is dangerous.

Knowledge without skillis a disability.

Creativity is the start of new creations.

Creativity is also the end of old creations.

Food for thought

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IAB New Campus

Know oneself and team

Appraisal & Reward System

Evaluation yourself and your

team

Presenting & Refining

Scenario1

Scenario2

Scenario3

Scenario4

CONTEXTPROBLEM

Title: Establishing & Sustaining the New IAB Campus

IAB’s fame in education management has gone international. The government of Malaysia has decided to establish the first new international campus to cater to the great demand for excellence in education management, especially from the international fraternity in the Southeast Asian region. You have been specially selected to work as the pioneer team to establish this campus.

The new campus is mandated to be fully responsible for delivering the best management practices of educational resources to meet the request of the countries in the region.

Context Problem

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In this campus, human resource is placed at the top of these educational resources. The campus vision is to nurture educationists who are highly organised with the ability to prioritise.

Managing humans to efficiently communicate ideas and policies is a fundamental ability of an educational leader. Performance is duly recognized and acknowledged for the sustainability of the campus.

Context Problem

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In order to be able to work successfully and harmoniously as a top level management team selected to establish the new campus, you will need to understand people in your team.

However, the wise once said: “In order to truly understand others, one needs to start by understanding oneself!”

Complete the given social style questionnaire and start knowing yourself and others. Determine the general characteristics and psychological inclinations of the members in your team and learn to work with each other optimally.

Scenario 1 – Knowing

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Learning about humans, including one own self, is a journey that takes quite a considerable amount of time in observation and investigation which include communication skills. Try enhancing these generic life skills as you go along learning about each other in the team.

The top management of the new IAB International campus is given full autonomy to utilize a special grant allocation from the government to sustain its education expert personnel.

Scenario 2 – Approsail & Reward System

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Formulate a reasonable, transparent and sustainable structure of appraisal and reward system to be used in your campus for the sustainability of your human resource, with an international composition, to continue carrying out its mandated vision in delivering excellence in education management.

Design an appraisal form assessing good human characteristics which you find are most important for promoting excellent performance during teamwork.

Scenario 2 – 2Approsail & Reward System

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IAB International campuses have been established throughout the country. Each of the campus has their own appraisal and reward system.

Delegations from the other campuses will be coming for a visit dialogue to learn from your campus. Make a presentation to the delegates about the system used in your campus. Then refine the appraisal form used in your own campus from the visits.

Scenario 3 – Presentation

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Appraise your own performance and your team members’ performances in working together during this PBL4C lesson. Use the form that you and your team have designed and refined.

Scenario 4 – Evaluation

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Q&A

Warabhorn Preechaporn, Teoh Boon Tat, Leong Chee Kin & Fong Ho KheongMathematics Education SpecialistsSEAMEO RECSAM

The Development and Effectiveness of Implementing

Problem-Based Learning: A RECSAM Experience

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The Development and Effectiveness of Implementing Problem-Based Learning: A RECSAM Experience Dr Warabhorn Preechaporn, Mr Teoh Boon Tat & Dr Leong Chee.

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