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What are our students doing? Workload, time allocation and time management in PBL instruction. A case study in Science Education
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, Science Education (Department of Pedagogy), Spain ; , Theory and History of Education (Department of Pedagogy), Spain ; , Department of Geological Engineering, Spain

TATE Volume 53, Number 1, ISSN 0742-051X Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

What are our students doing: studying, working with classmates, looking for information at the library or Internet? During 2 years, 131 preservice teachers were monitored using a survey, obtaining hours they employed in different tasks. Within the second year, problems found in the first were managed. Results reveal that, in Problem Based Learning, working in groups is the greatest time consumer although is distributed relatively homogeneously. Furthermore, students spend too much time on almost all activities, leading to a general overload properly handled in the second part of the study. Reflections on the consequences of time allocation research offers valuable opportunities to improve the quality of teaching-learning processes.

Citation

Ruiz-Gallardo, J.R., González-Geraldo, J.L. & Castaño, S. (2016). What are our students doing? Workload, time allocation and time management in PBL instruction. A case study in Science Education. Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 53(1), 51-62. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

This record was imported from Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies on January 29, 2019. Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies is a publication of Elsevier.

Full text is availabe on Science Direct: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2015.10.005

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