Orientation for Success in Higher Education: Reflection, Feedback, and Assessment

This article discusses the importance of reflective learning, feedback, and assessment in higher education. It explores different approaches to reflection and the nature of feedforward and feedback. It also explains the difference between formative and summative assessment.

Orientation for Success in
Higher Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
References .......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Reflective learning is known to be the technique which provide assistance to a person in order to
represent their ideas, past experience, opinion, and understanding as well as several more
elements to others in the more structural way. This basically focus on growth off the process of
critical thinking of a person with the assistance of internal method that is linked to the evaluated
areas of improvement as well as strength of a person. In addition to this it basically permit a
student in order to Take a step back from their past experiences and enhance it level of
performance in future by learning from earlier experiences. Moreover to this there are several
theories as well as models which are utilised by a person in order to reflect their past experience
and learning such as Gibbs reflective cycle, David Kolb as well as various other which provide
assistance have to an individual in order to accomplish growth in their education life (Solimun,
and Fernandes, 2018). In several educational organization faculty as well as teacher offer
suitable feedback feedforward to their students in accordance to their level of productivity and
performance in the examination which supports them to accomplish they are pre-determined
objectives and goals by enhancing the performance of working. There are several set of
capabilities and skills as well as effectual learning which is needed to accomplish these goals of
education (Veach, 2019). in addition to this the following is a will cover about the several
different approaches of reflection as well as nature of feedforward and feedback and how these
feedforward and feedback enhance the summative and future formative assessment as well.
TASK
Reflection is known as the method which provide assistance to the students in order to
make them express their opinion ideas as well as other different aspects in most understandable
way. It basically involves focusing back add few situations which are past experiences,
understanding and knowledge (Mishra, 2020). In addition to this with the support of evaluating
appropriate and successful experience people can reflect that what they have already learned in
their past and they can utilise that experience in their existing task. Approaches of reflection
supports the pupil in order to evaluate the circumstance in the suitable way and in accordance to
that they can take several decisions in an effective way in order to accomplish their particular
objectives and goals as well. This is crucial for all the students in order to attain suitable
understanding and knowledge regarding the particular approaches of reflection because this

provide assistance to them in attaining the lessons more effectively in their education life. There
are several models and approaches of reflections which are utilised for showing the learning,
Opinion and experiences such as David Colb, Gibbs reflective cycle and several more. In this
give reflective cycle refers to the one of the most effectual model of reflections which is
launched in the year 1988 by Graham Gibbs (Cohen, 2019). This approach provides support to
the people in order to make them express their ideas and experiences in a most effective and also
in understandable way. In addition to it there are several levels whichh are involved in this type
of the cycle that are description, examination, action plan, feeling, conclusion and analysis in a
suitable which provide help to the people in order to represent their understanding and learning
which is enhance in the particular time since beginning. Moreover to this description is known to
be the first element of this approach which represents every circumstance which are happened in
the particular time. After the stage of description the next stage is feeling which refers to the
things which are filled by the students at the time of their educational life this can either be
appropriate or bad for the students. After representing their own feeling regarding their studies
pupil analyse their own past experiences in order to learn from it in which they can either take a
lesson from bad experiences or cherish the good ones. Moreover to this action plan is made in
order to overcome the difficulties and enhance the several set of skills among the students and
conclusion is the brief of all.
Feedback is understood as the examination and evaluation of several different activities
and learning of apple which provide help to them in order to make them perform more
effectively more efficiency as well (Aljawarneh, 2020). These are linked to the assessing the
work as well as projects of the students after they finished in accordance to offer them the ideas
and understanding regarding the elements which need to be improved that will assist them to
increase their effectiveness as well as efficiency. Mentors and teachers in the educational
organization offer suitable feedback to their students on the foundation of their productivity and
performance level and offer them appropriate direction in order to make them work in more
suitable way. Apart from this feedforward is basically reverse activity if it is compared to the
feedback because this is associated to offering negative as well as optimistic feedback that is
possessing several solution regarding the future. Moreover to this feedforward basically are more
of future oriented rather than if it is compared to the past experiences. Feedback basically
concentrate on the current level of performance of the students and these Feedforward basically

pay more emphasis on the subsequent evaluation in accordance to offering suitable direction to
the people in order to make them perform effectively and efficiently in the future. In addition to
this faculty consistently evaluates the difficulties as well as problems that are encountered by the
students at the time of functioning the work and studies then they focus on offering them suitable
solution which supports them too accomplish their long term goals as well as task in a suitable
way. with the assistance of these I have understood that several issues and difficulties which are
occurred at the time of my studying and learning process which influenced my entire
productivity as well as performance in a negative way. By systematic as well as effectual
feedback I have enhanced and overcome the areas that are weak and also grab several techniques
which provide support to me in completing my studies and work with more effectiveness as well
as efficiency.
Formative assessment is refers to the technique that is utilised by the people with the aim
of examine the learning of a student in order to offer them the suitable feedback in accordance to
make them enhance their level of performance which will lead them towards growth and
development in their educational life (Abdous, 2019. With the support of this type of assessment
faculty evaluates as well as assess the issues and difficulties which are encountered by their own
students and they focus on providing suitable direction in order to make them solve their
problems and enhance their capacity of learning as well. Moreover to this it is also refers to the
technique of currently going assessment by which faculty observed the progress of their learner
and students at the time of their lessons. There are several techniques as well as lessons that are
utilised by the educational organization in order to enhance the learning and understanding
capacity of their students as well. Whereas summative assessment is refers to the method of
examining the learning of the student at the last of organizational unit by basically comparing
this in relation to few of particular benchmarks as well as standard. Furthermore in educational
organizations several methods and strategies are utilised by the faculty which are providing
suitable feed forward and feedback to their students which supports them to possess suitable
direction and guidance in order to enhance their own level of performance which will lead them
towards accomplishing their long term objectives as well as goals that are related to their studies
with more efficiency as well as with effectiveness.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that reflective learning is very essential element in
the professional as well as personal life of the student because this basically provide assistance to
the students in order to make them represent there learning, old experiences, ideas, innovative
opinions as well as other many things in more effective as well as efficient way possible. In
addition to this with the support of attaining appropriate and systematic feedforward and
feedback people can increase their competency and grab several set of skills as well as
understanding which provide assistance to them in order to finish their particular task in best
suitable way they can. Feedforward also supports them to detect their errors and issues and also
make them rectify those errors in order to accomplish their specific targets and tasks on the given
period of time.

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