Hmmm......lots of folks have emailed me to say that they or their 
colleagues have had similar problems using problem-based 
learning--low evaluations, strong push-back from students, etc.  This 
is in spite of what many claim are extensive efforts (as I believe I 
made) to be explicit in stating goals and objectives, etc.  A few 
folks even wrote to say that conferences they have attended where PBL 
was the theme have acknowledged these difficulties.

If students resist learning in this way, why do we persist in trying 
to teach them this way?  What are the data we can use to convince 
them that this might be a better way of doing things than the old "we 
talk, you listen" approach?
--Kathy Morgan
Wheaton College
Norton, MA  02762
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