Discussion with a colleague today reminded me about a rubric that people sometimes use for assessing journals and reflective writing: Bigg's SOLO taxonomy. (SOLO=Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes) It is often brought up in discussions of deep and surface learning
It is described here and discussed in slightly more depth here and there are hints at applying it to essay-type work here.
If you think this is worth pursuing I will put these links in the sidebar and do some more research on SOLO and how it has been applied to reflective writing.
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Should I be able to access the URLs from the posting? I can't!
Dundee Medical School and Centre for Medical Education were developing a tool for developing reflection in 2003 - might be worth chasing up. They have a portfolio summative assessment but paper-based.
Posted by: Jill Thistlethwaite | April 19, 2007 06:00 PM
sorry, Jill. I've fixed the links now and they are working.
Posted by: Mary-Helen | April 21, 2007 05:26 PM
I used a teaching based rubric for assessing reflection which I could provide you, I searched a lot of places before finding this one that at least had been validated previously: Essentially the levels were unreflective descriptive writing, descriptive reflection, dialogic reflection and critical reflection- I have descriptors for each of these with examples. Not sure how to upload them to this blog though
Helen
Posted by: Helen Wozniak | May 3, 2007 10:38 AM