MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND VETERINARY MEDICINE A pilot systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning On behalf of the Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review Group on the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning

for their assistance in obtaining papers. We would also like to thank the people for their advice and comments on previous drafts of this manuscript including Antoinette Peters and Peter Tymms. The report reflects the views of the members of Campbell Collaboration Review Group on the Effectiveness of Problem Based Learning and not necessarily the organizations or institutions named above or in which any of the group members are employed. The responsibility for the content of this report lies with the review group only. Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback and commentary of analysis and report Piet Van den Bossche Feedback and commentary on review protocol, analysis and report Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback and commentary of analysis and report Screening of identified citations for inclusion Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback on review protocol and commentary of analysis and report Develop proposal for review and obtain funding, negotiate and submit application for registration of the review, design review protocol, identify reviewers, coordinate review, identify citations from sample reviews, screen citations for inclusion, obtain copies of required papers, quality assess reviews of individual papers, data extraction, assess the quality of individual papers. Analyse included studies, write study report. Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback and commentary of protocol, analysis and report Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback and commentary of protocol, analysis and report Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback and commentary on protocol analysis and report Assess the quality of individual papers, feedback and commentary of protocol analysis and report Introduction Problem Based Learning (PBL) represents a major development and change in educational practice that continues to have a large impact across subjects and disciplines worldwide. PBL is promoted by professional and funding bodies as an appropriate strategy for professional education and increasingly as the method of choice. PBL is now also now spreading into non-– professional subject areas of Higher Education. The claims made for PBL would, if substantiated, represent an important improvement in outcomes from Higher Education. Thus it is of considerable importance that questions about what forms of PBL produce which outcomes for which students in what circumstances are rigorously investigated. There is a large volume of published work on PBL. However it is the contention of this review that despite this volume of literature, existing overviews of the field do not provide high quality evidence with which to …