Research Participants Needed
Higher Education Instructors’ Perceptions of Student Motivation and Academic Success When
Implementing Project-Based Learning: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study
• Are you a higher education instructor who has taught for at least two years?
• Are you currently teaching at least one course?
• Do you have experience in both Project-Based Learning and traditional methods of instruction
and testing?
If you answered yes to all of the questions listed above, you may be eligible to participate in a research
study.
The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study is to understand the lived experiences of instructors
on the effect of project-based learning on their students at Higher Education institutions in the United States of
America.
Participants will be asked to do the following:
• Complete an online interview (1 hour)
• Complete four online journal prompts (15 minutes)
• Complete an online questionnaire (30 minutes)
Names and other identifying information will be requested as part of this study, but participant
identities will not be disclosed.
A consent document will be emailed to you if you meet the study criteria one week before the
interview.
Al Baraa Abu Hawili, a graduate student in the School of Education at Liberty University, is
conducting this study.
For more information, please contact the researcher at aabuhawili.