High Quality Learning Environments Require High Quality Evaluation Instruments

Abstract

At the Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the educational approach is based on problem-based learning (PBL). Ten to twelve students in a group, guided by a tutor, discuss problems developed by the staff. This academic year, about 28 groups are formed of all the first year’s economics students. The tutorial group meets twice a week during two-hour sessions. During the first hour students report on previously discussed problems and during the second hour they discuss new problems and generate new learning objectives.

This study is conducted under supervision of a project group consisting (apart from the authors) of Erik W. Driessen, Wim H. Gijselaers, Hans D.P. Kasper, Piet K. Keizer & Mien S.R. Segers.