چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper describes two instructors’ efforts to more authentically engage students in a preservice leadership program’s course called Program Planning and Evaluation by using a
project-based learning approach. Markham, Larmer, and Ravitz (2003) describe project-based
learning (PjBL) as “a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge
and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions
and carefully designed projects and tasks” (p. 4). The instructors revised the course where
students were required to conduct a formal, standards-based evaluation of a critical issue in
their school settings that immersed students in integrating and applying knowledge using the
PjBL approach. The instructors used the Buck Institute for Education’s seven PjBL design
principles for instructors (Larmer, 2015) to develop and analyze the course revisions. The
process, challenges, and the results are discussed in this paper.