1. Reflection and Self- Evaluation

2. Topics  Reflective Learning  Self-Evaluation

3. Where will you be in five years?

4. What’s the point of University?  More than training you to complete tasks  More than a guide to today’s software  Much of what you learn now will be obsolete in 5 years!  Develop the skills and strategies to help you continually develop over your professional career

5. Learning through doing  More than just a training course  Stop and think  Demonstrate what you have learned  Not enough to just do – have to understand

6. Progress

7. Reflective Learning  Schön (1983) suggests that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice.

8. Learning Spiral

9. Applies in many contexts  Practical work  Assignment work - especially when things go badly  Marks and feedback

10. Self Evaluation

11. How did last week’s presentation go?  What did you learn?

12. How would you grade your work?  Why do we ask?  Get you to look at mark guidelines  Reflect on what you have written  Do you have time for a re-write to do better?  Students often realistic at this task

13. What went wrong?  Do  Be honest  Point out problems  Reflect on what you accomplished and how you could improve  Don’t  Trot out the old faithful “Better time management”  Be evasive  Be vague  Ignore the issues

14. Marking self-evaluation  Not an attempt to get you to confess to a bad assignment!  If there are marks for evaluation, you will gain the marks by being  Honest  Reflective  Constructive  These are marks to be gained not lost!

15. Not just a strategy  Actively seek to improve each time  You will improve with practice  Pay attention to the marking scheme and the assignment brief