Reflective writing can provide a powerful way for students to integrate professional experience and academic learning. However, writing reflectively requires high quality actionable feedback, which is time-consuming to provide at scale. This paper reports progress on the design, implementation, and validation of a Reflective Writing Analytics platform to provide actionable feedback within a tertiary authentic assessment context. The contributions are: (1) a new conceptual framework for reflective writing; (2) a computational approach to modelling reflective writing, deriving analytics, and providing feedback; (3) the pedagogical and user experience rationale for platform design decisions; and (4) a pilot in a student learning context, with preliminary data on educator and student acceptance, and the extent to which we can evidence that the software provided actionable feedback for reflective writing.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Gibson:2017:RWA:3027385.3027436
%A Gibson, Andrew
%A Aitken, Adam
%A Sándor, Ágnes
%A Buckingham Shum, Simon
%A Tsingos-Lucas, Cherie
%A Knight, Simon
%B Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2017
%I ACM
%K LAK17 feedback learninganalytics
%P 153--162
%R 10.1145/3027385.3027436
%T Reflective Writing Analytics for Actionable Feedback
%U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3027385.3027436
%X Reflective writing can provide a powerful way for students to integrate professional experience and academic learning. However, writing reflectively requires high quality actionable feedback, which is time-consuming to provide at scale. This paper reports progress on the design, implementation, and validation of a Reflective Writing Analytics platform to provide actionable feedback within a tertiary authentic assessment context. The contributions are: (1) a new conceptual framework for reflective writing; (2) a computational approach to modelling reflective writing, deriving analytics, and providing feedback; (3) the pedagogical and user experience rationale for platform design decisions; and (4) a pilot in a student learning context, with preliminary data on educator and student acceptance, and the extent to which we can evidence that the software provided actionable feedback for reflective writing.
%@ 978-1-4503-4870-6
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abstract = {Reflective writing can provide a powerful way for students to integrate professional experience and academic learning. However, writing reflectively requires high quality actionable feedback, which is time-consuming to provide at scale. This paper reports progress on the design, implementation, and validation of a Reflective Writing Analytics platform to provide actionable feedback within a tertiary authentic assessment context. The contributions are: (1) a new conceptual framework for reflective writing; (2) a computational approach to modelling reflective writing, deriving analytics, and providing feedback; (3) the pedagogical and user experience rationale for platform design decisions; and (4) a pilot in a student learning context, with preliminary data on educator and student acceptance, and the extent to which we can evidence that the software provided actionable feedback for reflective writing.},
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timestamp = {2017-03-17T09:29:38.000+0100},
title = {Reflective Writing Analytics for Actionable Feedback},
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year = 2017
}