Reflective Learning and Feedback Techniques for Higher Education Success

Orientation for
Success in Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
TASK....................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Reflective learning refers to the active learning which not only helps in controlling the
business functions but also assist in managing the duty assigned to the students. An individual can
examine their personal learning behaviour and identifies their strength and weakness through this
process. This is a method which helps an organisation to manage all its insensible events and offers
Students can enhance their academic skills by adopting reflective learning. This not only provide
various form of working structure to the students but also gives them response in coalition to all the
issues which can be face by them in future assignment. (Laraway, 2018) Furthermore, this report
will cover the complete stages of Gibbs reflection life cycles. The complete brief on the reflective
approach regarding the feedback and feed-forward is been a part of this report. At last, various types
of strategies in order to improve the formative and summative assessment of an individual.
TASK
The term Reflection may be refers as a tool which helps an individual to examine their own
sills and experience which not only assist them in managing but also helps them in learning. This is
a very crucial method which assist a learner in controlling and managing their professional gain self
confidence and self-awareness.(Kolbe, Frasquet, and Calderon, 2021). 1998 Graham Gibbs
announces the GIBBS Reflective series. They have provided an effective structure through which a
person can easily manage their learning experience. This cycle of reflection has evaluated different
types of methods and ways that a person can easily examine that whether or not they are
contributing to proper management and operation. This reflection cycle consists of six phases.
Description is advised as the first stage in which an individual describes all the situations faced by
them. This includes all the information which are going to take place in that specific situations. An
individual should completely describe the details such occurrence, outcome etc. regarding to the
situation faced by them. Feeling is been considered as the 2nd stage of this method. In this stage an
individual can completely analyse and explore their feeling which are generated by them during the
ongoing situation. This stage provides all of the inner aptitude as well as thoughts running around in
an individual's mind while performing a duty or going through the identical condition(.Johnson, .
and Stage, 2018.). The 3rd stage of this model is named as evaluation which determines and
analyses an individual all negative and positive aspects related to the situations. An individual has
the complete rights to conduct this stage as they are the only one who can examine themselves
better as compare to someone else. This helps an individual to focus on areas where they are lacking
and facing major challenges. The 4th stage of this model is analysis. With the utilization of this
stage, a person can easily stake out and determine all the situations related to the gaps due to which