Survey Analysis of Students' Attitudes in PBL Activities
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lbds.v004.225Keywords:
continuous professional education, project-based learning, PBL assessment scaleAbstract
This paper shows the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in 2023 for students enrolled in PBL courses at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology. The purpose of this survey was to develop a unified evaluation index for PBL activities as part of the Institutional Research (IR) activities of the Centre for Research and Education of Highly Skilled Professionals. As a result, it was found that they tend to avoid extremely difficult themes due to their anxiety of completing the course while the students value the originality and novelty of the PBL themes. Furthermore, they expect their PBL themes to be practical by discovering it by their own, rather than being given by someone else. Also, they prefer team-based work to individual work. The PBL faculty members are expected to build good relationships with the students and provide a guidance based on their expertise. While the students want to keep a relationship with the graduate school for the future, it is unclear what type of relationship they need. It would be a future work to be investigated. Finally, the results shows that their expectations for competencies to be acquired through PBL activities were high enough across the board and indicates the willingness of the students to acquire competencies through PBL activities.
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