Growth in self-reliance, and improved attitudes toward learning

• Academic gains equal to or better than those generated by other models, with students involved in projects taking greater responsibility for their own learning than during more traditional classroom activities
• Opportunities to develop complex skills, such as higher-order thinking, problem solving, collaborating, and communicating.
• Access to a broader range of learning opportunities in the classroom, providing a strategy for engaging culturally diverse learners
• There is a problem with no predetermined answer
• There is an atmosphere that tolerates error and change
• Students make decisions with a framework
• Students design the process for reaching a solution
• Students have a chance to reflect on the activities
• Assessment takes place continuously
• A final product results and is evaluated for quality
• Project-based learning engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve academic performance.