Reflection and Feedback for Enhancing Learning in Higher Education

Orientation for
Success in Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Reflection and reflective approaches to learning with the help of Gibbs model and use of
feedback and feed forward for improving future formative and summative assessments.....1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Reflection in teaching, learning and educational practices can be explained as the reviewing
process of the methods of learning and teaching and analysing/interpreting its results to make
connection with the preceding plans for upcoming processes. Reflection helps to enhance the
learning and teaching process within the higher education institutions (Tsay And et. al., 2020)
Reflective learning is a pervasive function and it continues in repetitive cycles of teaching,
assessing the learning activities of students and improving their learning quality through all
teaching practices with the help of feedback and feed forward. This report will provide a
reflective approach to learning and explain the utilisation of feedback and feed forward to
improve the learning or teaching process to create optimum results in higher education.
Moreover, Gibbs model of reflection will be utilized to make sense of prevailing situations and
identify the strengths and weaknesses of an individual for enhancing their future performance.
Further, it will describe feedback and feed forward that can be utilized for improving future
performance of formative and summative assessments.
MAIN BODY
Reflection and reflective approaches to learning with the help of Gibbs model and use of
feedback and feed forward for improving future formative and summative assessments
In my early days of schooling, obviously during childhood, I was a very curious,
demanding, explorer, innovator and continuous learner who is always motivated to explore new
things and create some innovative stuff. Now I am a graduate student, I am the same person with
little changes and my questioning/interrogation for avoiding mistakes and creating better
performance is the same. I deeply insist on the fact that learning is an all pervasive process
and there is always a scope for learning, interaction, exploration, testing, innovation, questioning
and seeking better solutions. I think the process of questioning, interacting and learning can help
to reduce the mistakes and improve the future learning process within a students' life. I had
experienced many problems and challenges while looking for answers and solutions to my
questions. To identify and examine the main factors that affect or influence my learning
activities, I utilised reflection and reflective approaches to learning. The reflection and reflective
approaches are crucial to develop or enhance the learning and teaching process through self-
1