Open AccessProject-based learning and its impact on the academic performance of middle school students
Author(s) -
Richard Eduardo Sánchez Bravo,
Jorge Andrade,
María Elizabeth Zambrano Cornejo,
Jaime Darío Santos Loor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2632-9409
DOI - 10.21744/ijss.v4n4.1793
Subject(s) - mathematics education , process (computing) , unit (ring theory) , project based learning , academic year , computer science , active learning (machine learning) , psychology , pedagogy , artificial intelligence , operating system
The adoption of active methodologies in the teaching-learning process allows the main actors of education to transform the classroom into scenarios of real experiences of learners. This research aims to analyze the Project-Based Learning methodology and its impact on the academic performance of middle school students. In this research, several methods were applied, including the qualitative documentary bibliographic review, the inductive-deductive method, allowing to identify the characterization of project-based learning, in addition, the academic results of the students of basic secondary of the Educational Unit “Aurelio Salazar”. As result, it was obtained that Project-Based Learning is an active methodology of current education where the teaching process is innovated, the academic performance of 62 students who attended the 2020-2021 school year was analyzed.