Reflection on demand?

Phil Race on reflection that on reflection starts to make sence to a reflection agnostic like me.

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Reflective practitioners? Reflection on action? Reflection in action? But what are the conditions when real reflection is more likely to happen? What kinds of evidence of reflection may there be? Do any of these lead to sensible metrics to try to ‘measure’ reflection? Are there indeed any realistic, objective assessment criteria which can be applied to evidence of reflection? And how is one supposed to compose some reflective writing anyway? Too many questions! Is composing this little piece for SEDA helping me to reflect? Well, hopefully.

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MCQ-writing: a bibliography in no particular order (Part 1)

Great resource for colleagues in the College of Engineering

Random acts of learning

So, having asked lots of folk for their suggestions around MCQ-writing, I have had some great suggestions of papers and books. Here is the list (part one – in the hope that there will be a part two 🙂 ) in particular order at all:

• Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items by Thomas M. Haladyna (Routledge; 3 edition (2 Jun. 2004))
• The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning Outcomes in the College Classroom by Michael Rodriguiz (Routledge (8 Jun. 2017))
• A Review of Multiple-Choice Item-Writing Guidelines for Classroom Assessment (2010) by Thomas M. Haladyna , Steven M. Downing & Michael C. Rodriguez http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15324818AME1503_5
• Writing Multiple-Choice Test Items That Promote and Measure Critical Thinking (2001) by Susan Morrison & Kathleen Walsh http://www.healio.com/nursing/journals/jne/2001-1-40-1/%7B73d1724a-7e63-427c-9198-37b41a66e982%7D/writing-multiple-choice-test-items-that-promote-and-measure-critical-thinking

• Education techniques for lifelong learning: writing multiple-choice questions for continuing medical education activities and self-assessment modules (2006) by Jannette Collins http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rg.262055145

• Writing Multiple Choice Questions by Ruth-Marie Fincher…

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