The Impact of Higher Level Thinking on Students' Achievement toward Project Management Course

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research design was conducted to determine the effectiveness of case-based teaching and problem based learning in higher order thinking skills such as comprehension, engineering problem solving, planning, organizing and decision making skills at the Qassim University. Two groups of forty (40) engineering students in Project Management course of comparable mental ability was used in this study. One group was exposed to higher level thinking exercises while the other was not. Results showed a significant difference in the mean gain scores of the group given higher level thinking in case-based teaching, and the group which was not. However, the same exercises showed no significant difference on students' problem based learning in Project Management course.