Creation of Problems and their Scoring for PBL Activities

The following guidelines should be kept in mind as you develop your physics PBL (no astronomy, etc.) and its presentation to your colleagues. The guidelines mostly were obtained from the PBL PowerPoint presentation found on the PHY 311 Web page under the topic Problem-based Learning.

There are 15 criteria covering three different areas of the problem statement, problem design, and in-class presentation. Students will receive a score of 5 on a given criterion if is clearly satisfied, a 4 if somewhat satisfied, and a 3 if poorly satisfied. A presentation will therefore score 60% if poorly done, and a some degree of effort has been demonstrated.

The problem statement:


The Problem Design:


The Presentation of the PBL problem:

Return to Problem-based Learning.