Mapping Enabling Conditions for High-Quality PBL: A Collaboratory Approach

Potvin, A. S., Miller, E. A., Kuck, R., Berland, L. K., Boardman, A. G., Kavanagh, S. S., Clark, T. L., et al. (2022). Mapping Enabling Conditions for High-Quality PBL: A Collaboratory Approach. Education Sciences, 12(3), 222. MDPI AG.

This paper explores enabling conditions for scaling high-quality project-based learning (PBL) to understand factors that influence how PBL spreads, whether and how it can be sustained and the extent to which it informs meaningful change in schools. We report on a year-long collaboration across three research projects. Each project team analyzed qualitative data from their individual project and then aggregated data across projects to understand similarities and variations in conditions that support the long-term implementation goals of PBL.