A Critical Evaluation of the Usefulness of a Coding Scheme to Categorise Levels of Reflective Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Bell, Amani; Kelton, Jill; McDonagh, Nadia; Mladenovic, Rosina; Morrison, Kellie
Titel	A Critical Evaluation of the Usefulness of a Coding Scheme to Categorise Levels of Reflective Thinking
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 36 (2011) 7, S.797-815 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
DOI	10.1080/02602938.2010.488795
Schlagwörter	Reflection; Thinking Skills; Student Journals; Coding; Classification; Business Administration Education; Undergraduate Students; Females; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Denkfähigkeit; Studentenzeitung; Codierung; Programmierung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	The use of reflective learning journals to encourage higher order learning outcomes is a growing area in higher education research and practice. However, without a unified and clear definition of reflection, identifying and assessing reflection is problematic for educators. In an attempt to address this issue, in 1999 Kember and colleagues devised a coding scheme based on the work of Mezirow, to identify and assess levels of reflective thinking in students' written journals. We evaluated the usefulness of this coding scheme in a business education context. Findings revealed that the scheme was useful in identifying categories of reflective thinking. Inter-coder agreement was 0.802 which is satisfactory. On average, 65% of the journal content was coded as non-reflection and 35% as reflection. A further outcome of the research was to refine the coding scheme and to provide suggestions for its application in teaching practice. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10