Additional Resources:

A companion study entitled Developmental journeys moving problem-based case learning to real time: Implications for teacher learning and professional development examines the CSS experience and lessons learned from the perspective of learning scientists. Copies will be available Spring 2006 directly from the CITE website.

For more information about problem-based learning and research into how people learn, please reference the following:

Albanese MA and Mitchell S. (1993). Problem-based learning: a review of literature on its outcomes and implementation issues. Academic Medicine, 68(1): 52-81.

Barrows, H. S. (1985). How to design problem-based curriculum for the preclinical years. NY: Springer.

Barrows, H.S., Bennett, K. (1982). Experimental studies on the diagnostic (problem-solving) skill of the neurologist, their implications for neurological training. Archives of Neurology 1982;26:273-277.

Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press.

Kolodner, J. L. (1997). Educational implications of analogy: A view from Case-Based Reasoning. American Psychologist, Vol. 52, No. 1, 57-66.

Kolodner, J. L., Gray, J.& Fasse, B. (2003). Promoting transfer through case-based reasoning: Rituals and practices in Learning by Design™ classrooms. Cognitive Science Quarterly, Vol. 3.

Vernon, D. and Blake, R. (1993). Does problem-based learning work? A meta-analysis of evaluative research. Academic Medicine, 7, 550-563.