A Trial Utilization of Weekly Reports to Evaluate Learning for System Development PBLs

Abstract

In IT-related departments or schools, system development PBL(Project-Based Learning) is focused as one of practical education methods. The evaluation method of students' learning for such PBL is less well-established, despite the fact that educational effects of PBL are highly appreciated. Presentations or reports of PBL have been used to evaluate team in terms of the degree of success as a project. It is difficult to evaluate in terms of learning of individual students. In this paper, we focus on personal weekly report in our university PBL as one of the candidates which is utilized to evaluate the learning of students. Students of the PBL write activity reports in this weekly report. We instruct a part of students to write not only doing but also learning in the reports. And analyze submitted the reports of instructed and not instructed students.