Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Reflective practice and blogs: developing a new model for assessment

Rosanne Birney, Waterford Institute of Technology
Addressing problem of academic workload involved in giving feedback.
Automated analysis of blog posts is a challenge - semantic analysis tools can be good for subject specific discussion, but not so useful for reflective writing.
Used a Delphi method to find consensus amongst experts in the field of reflection of criteria they value in identifying critical reflection. Used Analytic Hierarchy Process to unravel all this!
Assessment of reflection might enable tutors to give feedback where there is a scalability barrier.

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