Assessment tool: Journal reflections
Type: formative (developing)
Grouping: individual
Purpose: This tool helps to provide assessment on students understanding and comprehension of ideas or concepts in written format. Journal reflections allow students time to think about what they may have learnt or about what they don't understand. Journals become a way to express this.
Rationale: Journal reflections are usually used in conjunction with other strategies or assessment tools. It provides an assessment of reflective thought on their learning. Journals provide a means to which students can build on knowledge during the process or make adjustments to their learning and acquisition of knowledge.
21CLD connection: Journal reflections are traditionally pen and paper. However, journals can be done digitally through blogging or even tweeting. Journal allows students to construct meaning of the content and reflect on their own learning. Through a series of journals they can chart their own learning and reconstruct ideas and concepts.
Example:
This is a website to help students understand what reflective writing is and how to formulate thoughts. It is a good resource for them to start as the first question from students is "I don't know what to write."
Grouping: individual
Purpose: This tool helps to provide assessment on students understanding and comprehension of ideas or concepts in written format. Journal reflections allow students time to think about what they may have learnt or about what they don't understand. Journals become a way to express this.
Rationale: Journal reflections are usually used in conjunction with other strategies or assessment tools. It provides an assessment of reflective thought on their learning. Journals provide a means to which students can build on knowledge during the process or make adjustments to their learning and acquisition of knowledge.
21CLD connection: Journal reflections are traditionally pen and paper. However, journals can be done digitally through blogging or even tweeting. Journal allows students to construct meaning of the content and reflect on their own learning. Through a series of journals they can chart their own learning and reconstruct ideas and concepts.
Example:
This is a website to help students understand what reflective writing is and how to formulate thoughts. It is a good resource for them to start as the first question from students is "I don't know what to write."
This is a set of possible questions from the same website that will hopefully generate some responses that students can use in their reflective journal.
Source(s):
Reflective thinking retrieved from: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mod/book/tool/print/index.php?id=2732
Possible prompts retrieved from: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/succeed
Journal assessment retrieved from: http://education.alberta.ca/media/883874/app2.pdf
Reflective thinking retrieved from: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mod/book/tool/print/index.php?id=2732
Possible prompts retrieved from: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/succeed
Journal assessment retrieved from: http://education.alberta.ca/media/883874/app2.pdf