Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Krajick and Dr. Barbara Schneider
Co-principal investigators: Dr. Anne-Marie Palinscar, University of Michigan; Dr. Emily Miller (University of Georgia)
Award Amount: $5,000,000.00
Project Dates: 7/1/2019 - 6/30/2023
Funder: Lucas Educational Foundation
Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning drove student engagement by requiring students to ask questions, plan and conduct investigations, build models, use evidence, and design, develop and share artifacts with classmates, family members, and members of their community. Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, ML-PBL helped young learners make sense of the world.
The award-winning ML-PBL is one of the most highly researched curricula in the country with proven results in student engagement and test scores.
The positive effects hold for students of differing reading abilities, gender, and school-level, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, and across the major geographic regions of the state. Results suggest that the integration of project-based features and three-dimensional learning, along with high-quality professional learning and assessments together promote academic and social/emotional learning in science.
A full technical report for the Multiple Literacies in Project Based Learning project is available on the ML-PBL website. The materials are made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license.
