1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Considering all of the imposed, regulated academic standards in educational institutions today,
teachers face the challenge of covering a defined curriculum within a specific timeframe.
Subsequently, teachers are presumed to seek the best instructional practices to convey content to
their students. This selection process must consider alternative methods of presenting content to
students. Equally important, the method of harnessing the students’ personal experience of
understanding and relating to the content must be reviewed. In this study, self-regulation skill
development was examined as the means to bring together the students’ motivational and
knowledge acquisition needs using project-based learning as the skill/content vehicle.