This week’s topics
Academic Skill Reflection and Action Planning
- Reflective frameworks in professional practice
- Self-assessment of Level 6 academic skills
- Identifying developmental gaps
- Constructing SMART CPD action plans
- Lecture 50: Development Planning: GAPS Analysis
What you will be able to do
- 4.5 Reflect on own academic progress in relation to the development of academic skills.
- 4.6 Develop an action plan for any further improvement identified.
Activity
Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: reflect on own academic progress in relation to the development of academic skills.
Study materials
Videos
- Reflection in Action vs Reflection on Action (5 Minute Explainer) · YouTube · Helpful Professor Explains! · 5 min · for registered students
- Reflective writing · YouTube · Academic Skills, The University of Melbourne · 6 min · for registered students
- DCFE1x_2025_Module_2_2_3_2_How_to_reflect_3_reflection_models-video · YouTube · TU Delft Learning for Life · 4 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Technology-mediated self-assessment in higher education: a critical review · PDF · ERIC, article · for registered students
- Educational Psychology (Seifert & Sutton), Appendix C: The reflective practitioner · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 351–376 · for registered students
- A Critical Review of Research on Student Self-Assessment · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
