Review and Reflection

Practising Reflection
Student Name:

First identify and describe a task, event or experience for

reflection, and then rather than simply describing the facts,
attempt to answer the following:

Feelings
What were your reactions and feelings?

Evaluation
What was good and bad about the experience?
Identify positive and negative aspects

Analysis
What sense can you make of the situation and your attitudes to it?
Include here ideas from outside this experience to help you understand
what was going on.

Conclusions - general
What can you conclude in a general sense from this and other
experiences, and the analyses you have undertaken?

Conclusions - specific
What can you conclude about your own specific personal situation or style
of working and your approach to learning?

Personal Action plans

What will you do differently in this type of situation next time?
What action are you going to take on the basis of learning from this
experience?

It would be useful to include in these reflective comments your perception

of progress in particular skills, and link them to the development of
qualities particularly valued by employers of graduates and postgraduates,
for example:

How has this experience developed your ability to adapt to new

challenges and respond to changing circumstances and
opportunities? (flexibility/responsiveness to change)

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How has this experience developed your ability to manage time-

scales and resources, and encouraged a sense of responsibility for
achieving expectations? (organising managing)

How has this experience enabled you to use initiative to influence

situations, to actively involve others, and to tackle and overcome
problems? (leadership influence)

(With acknowledgements to Pete Watton, Jane Collings, Jenny Moon,

Reflective Writing' University of Exeter, 2001, including refs. to Gibbs
1988 and Kolb 1984)

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