Reflection In High School Students

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Brandes and Boskic (2008) identified that reflection can help students to engage in deeper levels of thinking. They used metaphorical thinking as a way to help students create their portfolios. This kind of transformative learning comes from deep reflection and helps students to develop a holistic sense of what they are learning. When using technology, they found that students approached or described the learning as a journey. One student testimony explained that the portfolio allowed her to view her work as a whole instead of working in a linear progression towards one assessment. Other students constructed their portfolios using images or personal experiences, which they used metaphorically to show their progression in their portfolio. More …show more content…

According to Acker and Halasek (2008), this is reason enough for K-12 educators and post-secondary educators to collaborate on academic success among high school students. To help in this collaboration, K-16 level educators decided to measure student writing through the CEPR Mixed Messages study. The eportfolio system that they opted to use provided the faculty and students with the use of immediate feedback and an environment which would foster improved student writing. One major objective for this study was to align “critical writing skills acquired by high school students and those identified as important by instructors responsible for college first-year writing programs.” In addition to faculty assessments, the students also did self reflections to report on the advantages of using ePortfolios. Findings from the faculty and students both showed that they developed skills for using digital portfolios as well as writing. In their conclusion Acker and Halasek found that for these skills to develop properly, the student institution must actively support the use of ePortfolios consistently among staff and

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