To date, the school has a range of subjects with various degrees of PBL implementation:

1. Individual PBL topic within a mainly non-PBL subject
2. Integrated PBL topics within a non-PBL subject
3. Fully PBL subject
4. Integrated PBL subject cluster
5. PBL subject via distance learning

A paper which traced the Applied Science School’s experience was presented at the Second Asia Pacific PBL Conference hosted by Temasek Polytechnic in October 2000 (Please refer to Conference Paper : Prepare Students and Faculty for Educational Change: Examples From the School of IT & Applied Science, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore for details).

As the school gains conviction of the benefits of PBL to student learning, the concept of using a PBL Track to guide the PBL journey for each student was articulated in June 2002. Each PBL track consists of several PBL subjects.

Students would encounter PBL on several occasions during the three years of studies at the school. With repeated exposure and time, they develop process skills in addition to content acquisition. A paper was presented at the International PBL Conference at Delaware in June 2002 to share our experience with other PBL practitioners (Please refer to Conference Paper: Our PBL Journey in Managing Implementation Models at Temasek Applied Science School. for details).