Dear PhD Design souls, People keep joining the group which is great - what we might do together remains obscure - perhaps as we move towards the next conference the use of this space will become more obvious. Meanwhile - I have been working on an assessment tool to assist with determining if Problem based Laerning is taking place. I am wondering if people might wish to respond, either to the survey itself and/or to the design of the survey. It is based on work by Schon. It seems to me, that Schon, as a professional philosopher, did the job of establishing how to look at the work we do as design educators - somehow the thoroughness of his treatment has been lost in the rush to quote the bits about how people who practice also think. Visit the site below for further details www.newcastle.edu.au/department/ma/staff/russell/pbl many thanks to the several PhD students who sought assistance - I hope it was useful keith russell %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%