%PDF-1.7 % Twenty students expressed their dislike of the fine paid by late students. The current study recommends doing some future research in the following areas. Considering the proposed implications, reflective journals can be used in other university contexts to provide feedback about teaching effectiveness. Findings revealed that using reflective journals informed and framed instructional practices in the English writing course, particularly the teaching strategies, classroom management and students reported challenges. A reflective note encourages you to think about your personal reaction to a legal issue raised in a course. Refine the understanding of the role of the researcher through reflection and writing, much like an artist might do; 2. <>59 0 R]/P 31 0 R/S/Link>> There are advantages to having it digitally: it does make it easier to search, and easier to back up (by saving it in multiple places). It is a space where a learner can record and reflect upon their observations and responses to situations, which can then be used to explore and analyse ways of thinking. 5 0 obj They define it as analogous to the anthropologists field journals and is the major means for an inquirer to perform a running check on the biases, which he (sic) carried with him into the context. I found that using systematic reviews saved time searching through numerous journals, and I found the The following attributes characterise reflective journals: written, dated, informal, flexible, private and archival (Stevens & Cooper, Citation2009, pp. Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd, Register to receive personalised research and resources by email. 1 0 obj I would also like to thank Prof. Debra Myhill, Professor of Education, and Dr. Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh, Senior Lecturer in TESOL, Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, UK, for their insightful feedback and review of the first draft of this research paper. It should provide you with a means of engaging critically and analytically with module content. Guided by the literature review and the context of the study, I will discuss the following factors that appear to interpret the findings: students views about evaluating teaching effectiveness, effective teaching strategies, teachers provision of feedback, and teacher-student relationships. Helpful/useful/difficult/easy etc. of the research process through keeping reflective journals and using them in writing up the research. The grading rubric for the reflective assignment was based on four criteria: understanding, reflection, evidence/practice, and structure/coherence. Keeping and Using Reflective Journals in the Qualitative Research Process A reflective journal is a personal record of student's learning experiences. 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Start a new submission or continue a submission in progress, Ready to submit? While this is a good strategy, it wastes much time, and it is very repetitive in class as most girls in the class are chatty. I am used to instructors who used to email my assignments with some comments and corrections. 38 0 obj Qualitative research projects are complex to design, manage and analyse, and can take many years to complete. Below is an example of one way of approaching it. A sample example is highlighted below: If the teacher sees a student busy with something else or absent-minded, he abruptly asks her a question, and then the student loses her face and apologises for not paying attention. Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, The different kinds of reflective practice and the purposes they serve, Reflection and the generation of knowledge in particular professions, The ways reflection is taught and learned most meaningfully, The links between reflective learning and the quality of workplace action. Three journal entries drew attention to students inability to be creative while working in groups as exemplified below: Sometimes, I cannot develop good ideas with a group of people; I cannot be creative in working with others in some cases. Teachers provision of constructive feedback is helpful and beneficial to students learning, reflection and achievement (Gursansky et al., Citation2010; Hattie & Timperley, Citation2007). Findings of the current exploratory study are important to the field of teaching in higher education in a multicultural context. Teachers need to stimulate students interest, be clear and understandable, knowledgeable of the subject matter, well-prepared and organised, enthusiastic for the course and teaching, concerned about and respectful of students, helpful and available to students, and open to class questions and discussion (Feldman, Citation1976). This section critically reviews previous research that used reflective journals for different purposes: learning and course revision, assessing reflection, and improving students self-awareness. (RJ, Students Reported Challenges, Lack of Handouts, S. 70, week 4). Reflective journals are used in the literature to promote students learning, develop writing skills, assess students reflection level, promote teachers professional development, and gather research data. If journaling is new to you (especially reflective journaling), you might find yourself sitting and staring at a blank page for hours. A sample journal entry is provided below: I find it difficult to read the professors handwriting. People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read. Informed by Gibbs reflective cycle (Citation1988) (i.e. The next section discusses students perspectives of their preferred instructional practices and reported challenges in the concerned EFL writing course. endobj Third, using reflective journals as the only data collection tool is considered a limitation as I could not use other tools such as an interview or a focus-group discussion due to female students conservative nature and their disapproval of expressing their views openly in a face-to-face fashion. Another research indicated that the quality of teacher-student relationships is negatively affected by students problem behaviours (Pianta & Nimetz, Citation1991). But as Janesick (1998) notes, another important role is to refine the understanding of the responses of participants in the study, much like a physician or health care worker might do. (RJ, Students Reported Challenges, Mocking Students, S. 28, week 10). Reflexive journals in qualitative research Daniel Turner Apr 2, 2020 5 min read It is common practice for researcher to keep a journal or diary during the research process, regardless of discipline or methodology. Certificated training in research ethics has been offered at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, since 2019. This training comprises a 4 h content-based workshop followed by a written . Seventy-three students speak L1Arabic as their mother tongue. (RJ, teaching strategies that work, discussion, S 55, week 9). Finally, grading was not a big issue for the participants of the current study as reflective journals were marked out of 5% on completion. Michelle Ortlipp Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article. In another study, Anderson (Citation2012) used reflective journals to critically evaluate postgraduate students reflection, critique and self-analysis through focus groups. First, reflection is a complex, rigorous, intellectual, and emotional enterprise that takes time to do well (Rodgers, Citation2002, p. 845). I once did some auto-ethnography in nightclubs. Do you want to set some goals for next week? What role did you play in class? If one member does not get the point, others will explain it to her. They were a mix of bilingual and multicultural students at a university in Qatar. Other research showed that reflective journals could be used as an engaging tool for reflection (Gursansky, Quinn, & Le Sueur, Citation2010; Knapp, Citation2012; Muncy, Citation2014) and an evaluation of critical reflection (Anderson, Citation2012). Effective college teaching from the students' and faculty's view: Matched or mismatched priorities? endobj What challenges do undergraduate students encounter in the EFL writing course? An example is mentioned thus: It is my first time to experience an instructor who collects 10 QR from each late student. Reflective journals: Making constructive use of the "apprenticeship of observation" in preservice teacher education. Thirty-nine journal entries referred to the benefits of cooperative learning in students learning. Reflective Practice also incorporates, from time to time, Special Issues on 'hot' topics. Vicary, Young and Hicks (2016) recommend writing a research diary directly in qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS), in their case using Nvivo 10, but any qualitative software has the same basic capability. Despite acknowledging that each student has been contacted to permit using their journal entries, I am wondering how the researcher addressed the issue of the power relation between the teacher and her students. endobj Methods. <>51 0 R]/P 56 0 R/S/Link>> To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. <> Students reflective journals showed a gradual development in students knowledge of the expository method until they were able to apply the learnt concepts, leading to a reflection. Based on the findings and discussion above, I am putting forward some implications directed at teachers and stakeholders to enhance instructional practices further. However, students were not afraid of the teacher-student power relations, as they would get the full mark (5%) upon completion of the weekly reflective journals. Thirteen journal entries reflected on the time wasted by the teacher to deal with disruptive students. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. Reflective practices are methods and techniques that help individuals and groups reflect on their experiences and actions in order to engage in a process of continuous learning. The teacher should note that we have different paces; we do not have the same writing skills. How will this weeks classes help you in your assignment? Exemplification is another teaching strategy praised by twenty-eight students in their journal entries as exemplified below: Also, the examples of good and bad reports were used to give us a clear idea about what we should exactly do in the report. Another three journal entries revealed students difficulty in communication with group mates as follows: The bad thing about group work is that we found it difficult to communicate. Analysis of students reflective journals showed that students favour the following teaching strategies: gradual teaching, exemplification, discussion, cooperative learning, comprehension checking and graphic organisers. . A reflective journal can help you to identify important learning events that had happened in your life. First, I trained the three instructors of English writing to train their students on how to write reflective journals. application/pdf (RJ, teaching strategies that work, exemplification, S. 69, week 3). (, Exemplification and characterization moves in the classroom teaching of geometry concepts, Classroom participation and discussion effectiveness: Student-generated strategies, Using graphic organizers to attain relational knowledge from expository text, The superior college teacher from the students view. First, a sample size of 78 undergraduate students is quite small. Did you know that with a free Taylor & Francis Online account you can gain access to the following benefits? Keywords (RJ, Students Reported Challenges, Turn-Taking, S. 34, week 7). uuid:80f43191-b0a3-11b2-0a00-a00e9b020000 Journals. Permission will be required if your reuse is not covered by the terms of the License. The researcher believed that some factors could have helped students to critically reflect on their experiences such as defining reflection, clarifying its purpose, and provision of feedback and guidelines on assessment. At my request and after reading students reflective journals written in week (1), I trained the three instructors for an hour on how their students need to fill in the reflective journal with examples of their students superficial reflection. 60 teacher education students from the Sydney University were included in the research study on the These are sometimes called reflexive diaries, self-reflexive journals, research journals or research diaries. 36 0 obj View journal writing as a type of connoisseurship by which individuals become connoisseurs of their own thinking and reflection patterns, and indeed their own understanding of their work as qualitative researchers. Effective college teaching from the students and facultys view: Matched or mismatched priorities? In the current study, participants showed that their teachers use some strict classroom management strategies when it comes to disruptive students, ringing mobile phones, mocking students and unpunctual students. This will enable the progress of the typescript through the publication system to be accurately determined at any stage. reflective journals are commonly used in research studies on different disciplines and teacher education ([2]; [7]; [9]; [13]; [14]). <>15]/P 31 0 R/Pg 78 0 R/S/Link>> endobj 57 0 obj choose to publish gold open access in this journal. Second, I reviewed the previous literature to design a reflective journal template that could help students reflect systematically, rigorously and scientifically. uuid:80f43192-b0a3-11b2-0a00-0045425bfc7f endobj <>37 0 R]/P 6 0 R/S/Link>> Seventy-one journal entries focused on students complaint about teachers frequent questioning. I find that pair work and group work open up our horizon and help develop my writing and critical thinking skills. A log of day-to-day personal introspections. PubMed. <> <>stream An interpretive qualitative research design aims to understand the context where participants act and the process in which actions happen to interpret and justify why things happened (Denzin & Lincoln, Citation 2000; Maxwell, Citation 1996).Therefore, the current study adopts a case study methodology which probes students' written views through their weekly reflective journals to . Previous research highlighted that teachers need to have some characteristics that could have a positive impact on students learning, motivation and improved student-teacher relationships. (RJ, teaching strategies that work, graphic organisers, S. 5, week 6). There is much more written in the literature on this topic, see our own post on participant diaries, and Janesick (1998) has written about distinguishing and triangulating these in her article. I can argue that the researcher could have trained students to avoid descriptive journal entries through the discussion of sample reflective journals. 5.1.1 Candidates via standard pathway without advanced standing are required to submit two (2) separate reflective journal writing pieces. However, reflective journals were reported as exhausting for the teachers as they required much energy for marking. 2021-02-25T11:37:00-08:00 He always uses mocking phrases such as really. etc. You may find the questions listed above can help you to develop an outline before you write your paper. AppendPDF Pro 6.3 Linux 64 bit Aug 30 2019 Library 15.0.4 International Journal of Reflective Research in Social Sciences An international open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality research on all aspects of research studies. 2021-02-25T11:37:00-08:00 Figure 2 below shows the eleven students reported challenges that emerged from students reflective journals. Another study could explore the effectiveness of reflective journals in developing students reflection level. This study was useful to the current research as it highlighted the different factors that helped improve the quality of journal entries such as instructors feedback and convenient online access. Some of these challenges revolve around teachers instructional and classroom management techniques. In this article, we aim to encourage new qualitative researchers to become reflexive as they develop their critical research skills, differentiating between the familiar concept of reflection and reflective practice and that of reflexivity. Join SPSSI; Conferences; COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW. (RJ, teaching strategies that work, cooperative learning, S 47, week 6). 11 0 obj First, a study that explores the effectiveness of instructional practices from the perspectives of male or a mixed gender university student is needed. In other words, to also record the researchers own observations about the participants and their lives, when doing interviews, focus groups or ethnography, that will enrich and give context to other more formal methods of data collection. The current research is considered an important step in understanding students evaluations of the teaching effectiveness through their weekly reflective journals. 3. 34 0 obj Methods: This paper reports on the learnings from a two-month participant observation at UK Policy Lab conducted in early 2019. Thirty-four journal entries preferred the gradual teaching approach as expressed in the sample entry below: I indeed learned how to write a summary and how to design a newsletter from the step-by-step approach that the professor uses in his teaching. Previous research corroborated with this finding highlighting that graphic organisers helped improve students attainment of facts and concepts and provided more relational knowledge (DiCecco & Gleason, Citation2002). This rule encourages students to be more punctual and value time; however, I would rather skip classes than pay a fine for late arrival to class. It is contrasted with extrospection, the observation of things external to one's self. Previous research referred to some characteristics of discussion technique such as promoting a democratic environment (Brookfield & Preskill, Citation1999); freedom of speech (Redfield, Citation2000); engagement in learning (Leeds, Stull, & Westbrook, Citation1998), developing higher order thinking skills (Ewens, Citation2000); learning from others contributions (Hertenstein, Citation1991). 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