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Computer Facilitated Reflective Practice in a Postgraduate Supervisor’s Feedback to Students

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Reflective practice has been adopted by many teachers, including dissertation advisors who provide 1:1 teaching of research students. This paper discusses issues arising from our use of qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) for reflective practice and provides an analysis of the thematic coding and word/pattern searches of feedback given to postgraduate research students. We subjected written feedback provided by one dissertation advisor to three different analyses: thematic, text-string and text-pattern search. We found that use of QDAS in a thematic analysis of feedback provides new insights by indicating areas of strength and areas for improvement. Text and pattern searches are more useful in flagging students with specific learning issues.

Source: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

DOI: 10.20429/ijsotl.2008.020208

Authors: Kathy Ahern, Fiona Hawthorne

Institution: Bond University

Language: English

Topic: Reflective Practices in Education

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1487931614

FWCI: 31.85

Cites: 25

Cited by: 64

Related to: 10