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Bosanquet, Agnes; Cahir, Jayde; Jacenyik-Trawoger, Christa; McNeill, Margot – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper explores an innovative approach to evaluating the effectiveness of a writing group in an Australian research-intensive university. Traditional qualitative and quantitative methods typically applied in higher-education research may be effective in analysing the output of writing groups; however, they do not always address the affective…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Group Activities, Program Effectiveness, Group Dynamics
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Lew, Duan Ning Magdeleine; Schmidt, Henk G. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether there is evidence of reflection in student-written journals and to investigate whether students show improvements in their reflective skills through journal keeping. To that end, the reflection journals of 3460 first-year students enrolled in a polytechnic were studied by means of an…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Reflection, Learning Strategies, College Freshmen