The study aims to discover the effect of project-based learning on the improvement of 21st century skills (4Cs) among Emirati secondary level students. The study sample comprises of twelve male secondary level students from Department of Education and Knowledge-Abu Dhabi who participated in the ‘Think Science National Competition 2019’. They were considered as an experimental group, and experimental design was used, where the 21st century skills (4Cs) test was prepared by the researcher and was administered on the group. A pre-test was administrated before the students start the project and a post-test once they finished. The paired sample T-Test was employed to analyze the data. The results shows that there are statistically significant differences of (? = 0.05) level in student’s 21st century skills (4Cs) test between pre and post-test scores, indicating a better performance in post-test. In other words, the project-based learning approach has significant effect on improvement of 21st century skills (4Cs) among Emirati secondary level students who participated in Think Science National Competition 2019.
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