Toward a Future-Oriented Problem-Based Learning Paradigm

• In Event: Roundtable Session 35
  In Roundtable Session: Problem-Based Education SIG Roundtable Session: Problem-Based Education as a Means to Increase Confidence and Essential Skills

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to address some persisting discrepancies between PBL’s expected and actual outcomes as indicated in the PBL literature by suggesting a theoretical and practical placement of PBL within the context of Miller and Brickman’s 2004 Model of Future-Oriented Motivation and Self-Regulation. Specifically, we will provide evidence that a future-oriented PBL paradigm with a clearly delineated connection between the instrumental value of PBL tasks and the students’ personally valued future goals, as the Miller and Brickman model suggests, has the potential to greatly strengthen motivation for PBL, and to deliver the expected outcomes of PBL.

Authors

• Sharon E. Tabachnick, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

• Raymond B. Miller, University of Oklahoma

• David L. Maness, University of Tennessee Health Science Center