THE ONLINE EFFECTS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ON STUDENTS
1. In light of the gathered data in the study, project-based learning was found to be more effective on students‘ academic achievement levels and attitudes towards the course than the activities instruction based on student textbooks. So, it is suggested teachers should use this approach in their lessons. Because, after the experimental process of this strategy, students rose their academic achievement and attitudes towards the lesson in a greater extent.
2. Teachers should direct the process of the approach effectively so that if they cannot direct the strategy effectively, students can be frustrated and demoralised, they can be bored with the lesson and the strategy can be unsuccessful from the beginning of the process. Because of this situation, seminars and courses should be organised as to train teachers to use this approach effectively in their classrooms so that they can create a more positive classroom atmosphere. Also, teacher education programmes should be reorganised to contain both the practice and the theoretical knowledge/framework of project-based learning.
3. By project-based learning, students have a chance to practise their understanding on the learning material by interacting and communicating with their peers in the groups. Students do not memorise the concepts and other things, they do study the learning materials and learn deeply. In other words, they have a chance to practise their understanding on the learning material with project-based learning. So the learning environment should be organised so that students interact face to face with each other and share the responsibility of the learning process.
4. Teachers should give projects to students so that students have a chance to select from a number of subjects. In addition, teachers should pay attention to the students so that the students organise their work with the principles of project-based learning.
5. High School English Curriculum in Turkey should be integrated with the techniques and principles of project-based learning in order to develop students‘ academic, communicative and creative competences as well as other social and emotional skills.
6. Similar researches can be carried out in other lessons and institutions such as elementary school or
university level.