Factors that contribute to undergraduate student success

Abstract

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Developing a mobile learning solution for health and social care practice

“…Reflection is well recognised for its importance in the learning process (Dearnley & Matthew, 2007) as is the role of self-assessment in effective learning, for future professional development and lifelong learning (Boud, 1995;Taras, 2001). The ALPS mobile device enabled reflection anywhere, any time by allowing students to make quick written notes or to use the audio facility to capture thoughts, or even to take a photograph that can be revisited to evoke memories and more thorough consideration.…”

“…It is not unusual for students to pay lip service to reflection, while concentrating on 'assignments' that will be 'summatively assessed' and will get them the grades. 'Becoming reflective' is like learning to drive: you have to learn the rules before it becomes buried as tacit knowledge and results in spontaneous actions (Dearnley & Matthew, 2007). There was some indication that the mobile assessments, in generating regular reflection on/in practice through structured self-assessment, were indeed beginning to embed the 'rules' of reflection.…”

The student experience of piloting multi-modal performance feedback tools in health and social care practice (work)-based settings

“…Hattie and Timperley (2007) discuss the merits of different types of feedback and note that feedback about self-regulation is one of the most effective ways of learning and Brown and Glover (2005) recognises the potential of students being able to choose when they are ready to be assessed. Similarly, reflection is well recognised for its importance in the learning process (Schön 1995;Johns 2000;Dearnley and Matthew 2007), as is the role of self-assessment, for personal and professional development and lifelong learning (Boud 1995;Dearing 1997;Stefani 1998;Taras 2001;Falchikov 2005). The ALPS assessment tools are designed to facilitate lifelong learning by facilitating multi-sourced feedback, reflection and action planning.…”

Independent Learning And Reflective Thinking Of The Future Teachers

“…Thus, Bourner (2003) notes that developing students' capacity for reflective learning is part of developing their capacity to learn how to learn. Dearnley and Matthew (2007) report that the awakening process, facilitated through reflection, is crucial in moving students from a state where they begin to question received knowledge and begin to think independently. Harrison et al (2003) contend that reflection is an important human activity and is an essential element of the learning process that allows students to evaluate their personal strengths and weaknesses and runs parallel with metacognition.…”