HLST183 Applied Psychology

Reflective Practice for Psychology Students: The Use of Reflective Journal Feedback in Higher Education.

Discussion:

According to the author, the reflective journals have appeared to be an efficient way of controlling and building reflective practices in higher education. It has been a part of the enormous cognitive policy to change the learning approaches which were used before. Addition to this, the evaluation actions of the reflective journals emerge to be a significant issue in enhancing and improving the commitment to reflection and learning. In this paper, author discovered the impact of the use of writing journal and feedback formative on the excellence of reflective practices. The case study approach is the used methodology for this paper.  The case study was about the reflective education in a post graduation degree course in North Italy in 2014 or 2015.  

Conclusion:

The article has contributed to the recent debate on the efficiency of one to one writing education by examining the writing skills of a student by quantitative trend evaluation and qualitative examination. In particular, it has offered a proof of the formative advice efficiency in improving the quality and excellence of reflective practice. Unlike other research which supports writing this study looks to evaluate and examine the effect of feedback used. It not only measures the effectiveness of the student opinion or their satisfaction level but this also help in assessing the improvement of the reflective practices.

A positive view of first-year undergraduate reflective diaries: focusing on what students can do.

Discussion

This article aims to examine the opinion of the 1st year student of using the diary to imitate their first semester at the university. The students were recommended to complete an own diary of ideas, experience and feelings to evaluate its content by literature already published. The article used the qualitative evaluation approach which further helps in assessing the reviews which were carried out in an array of determining the themes included in concerning the utilization of diaries. The discussion in this article was also about the benefits which emerged from the student's perception. The finding of this study will help students in adjusting to university and to take personal authority for their education and learning.

Conclusion:

In a nutshell, the article stated various benefits which come after encouraging the 1^st year students to maintain and reflect on the diaries to make it possible to adopt a focus on student-centred activities in the university.  This article also suggests that doubt on the quality of the 1^st year students must not depreciate from the possible efficiency and effectiveness of using the diaries. The importance of permitting reflection against the variation of view points and a final collective analysis is discussed in this article. The article also offers to understand of the learning and teaching results, and the advantages for students, teachers and university get from using reflective wring of the journal during the 1^st year of the course.

Towards the high quality reflective education among undergraduate students of law: examining students’ reflective journal at the time of learning based on problem course

Discussion

In this article author reviewed that there was a broad contract based on learning from problems which act as a key policy to encourage capabilities of the person to know how to learn. In this paper it was presented that the key contributions added in the reflective journals and learning based on problems is important to promote the professional and specialized knowledge and also to increase the quality of learning in higher education at university. In this article experimental approach was used, which conducted a semi organized interviews with the undergraduate students of law and also used 36 reflective journals in which student participated. Further the learning based on problems in the course was analyzed.

Conclusion:

Based on the finding of this article, it can be stated and concluded that the learning based on problems contributes to the improvement and enhancement of professionalism in occupational studies, to improve the communication skills and to develop team work, to act as a bridge to fulfill the gap between practice and theories and to promote the self control and regulation of leaning in the students. The basic factors of leaning based on problems are reflective journal, cooperation, teamwork and support of peers and the helpful role of teacher. All this empowers, motivates and encourages students in their personal learning. The reflection raise the leaning quality and it need to consider as an appropriate strategy of leaning for non professional and professional regulation in higher education at university.

Reference:

Brooman, S., & Darwent, S. (2012). A positive view of first-year undergraduate reflective diaries: Focusing on what students can do. Reflective Practice, 13(4), 517-531. DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2012.670618.

Bruna, A., & Dell'Aversana, G. (2017). Reflective practice for psychology students: The use of reflective journal feedback in higher education. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 16(2), 248-260. DOI: 10.1177/1475725716686288

Rué, J., Font, A., & Cebrián, G. (2013). Towards high-quality reflective learning amongst law undergraduate students: analysing students’ reflective journals during a problem-based learning course. Quality in Higher Education, 19(2), 191-209.