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What's the problem? | Review Problem-Based Learning Steps

Define the Problem: Dueling Editors

Meet the problem.

You have read the problem. Fill in a GRASPS worksheet in response to it. (Scribbling this with paper and pencil is fine. You will not turn this in.)

GRaSPS
Questions
Notes
Goal
 What is the GOAL of the assignment? What will you be learning as you work on it? In this problem, you are Tracing Action and Argument. You are noticing the flow of a block of text.
Role
 What is your ROLE in the problem? Who are you? What are you to do?  
Situation
 What is the SITUATION in which you find yourself? Describe as much as you know.  
Product or Performance
 What is the PRODUCT of your work to be? Notice what your boss asks you for. This is the product.
Standards
 What are the STANDARDS by which your work will be judged? Here is the rubric I use in my classes. As you meet the problem, try to relate these general standards to the specific Goal, Role, Situation and Product of this problem. By the way, when you do not work with others on the problem, the standards for collaboration will not be applied to your work.

What do you know? What do you need to know?

Make a list of things you know already. You can organize them into categories that make sense to you. Here are some categories I thought of:

  1. What do you know about the study Bible project?
  2. What do you know about your colleagues' proposals?
  3. What do you know about Mark 4? What is going on there? (At this point, you are just describing the problem, not yet working on a solution.)
  4. What do you know about how to decide where a text begins and ends? For instance, how would you know, in an unmarked, undivided text, that a story was ending?
  5. What do you know about how to present your ideas to the group? (You may want to decide the best presentation method later.)

How do you know these things?

Part of this step is saying how you know what you know. Give a reason for each item on your list. A reason can be from the supporting materials (for example: "this was in Jane Ann's email,") or in the biblical text (for example: "'and he said...'" is repeated; looks like a transition phrase"). Write enough about the reasons for thinking you know something that your notes will make sense to you later.

What do you need to know?

In this step, you also list things that you need to know in order to see the scenario through to completion. What do you need to know to have a good proposal ready for the group on Monday?

  1. What do you need to know about Mark 4?
  2. What do you need to know about tracing action and argument in general?
  3. What do you need to know about presenting your ideas to the group?

State the problem.

Why should there be disagreement among the editors? What is it about Mark 4 that makes it a challenge to divide and name parts of this chapter?

Next: Go to "Address the Problem," coaching page 2.