Reflective Report: Evaluating Induction Program for Distance Learners

This report is a reflective journal analyzing a distance learner's experience and learning from an induction program. The student utilized the Gibbs model to evaluate their personal development, focusing on academic writing, referencing, and plagiarism. The report includes a SWOT analysis and a personal development plan (PDP) to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The learner assessed the importance of these sessions and the key themes of referencing, plagiarism, and academic writing. The conclusion outlines an action plan for improvement, focusing on enhancing clarity, evidence, and formatting in their writing, particularly referencing skills. The student aims to improve their academic writing and referencing skills by comparing their work with authorized articles and attending training sessions. The report provides a structured overview of the learning process and areas for improvement.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Description .................................................................................................................................1
Personal feeling...........................................................................................................................1
Evaluation...................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................2
Action plan..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................5
PDP plan of distance learner (Work based distance learning)....................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Reflective journal is the analysis of own thoughts experiences which an individual has
learned from life, session, training, inductions etc. This report will evaluate person development
of distance learner after induction programme. There are different theories of models of writing
reflective which provide appropriate structure to individual learning. Therefore, to provide
structure to learning from distant learner the person will use Gibbs model which aims at
describing learning in 5 steps. In this the learner will focus on derive its PDP on three key
themes of induction which were academic writing, referencing and plagiarism. This will assist
the person in deriving lacking areas and improvement measures which are required to meet
personal development objectives.
MAIN BODY
Description
Learning experience of learner is focused with induction programme in which the
individual has learned about referencing academic writing and plagiarism (Youngs, Bieda and
Kim, 2017). The individuals have prepared personal development plan of three stages in which
learner coved personal swot, aim and objectives which will helped in individual in analysing
own strengths and weaknesses. In accordance, the person will derive learning experience of
induction programme for evaluating need of improvement in different areas.
Personal feeling
In my opinion personal development plan is the most effective way of analysing own
strengths, weakness and opportunities (D’Oca and Hong, 2015). In my opinion it is the best
strategy to analyse own learning from different areas. Moreover, after induction session I was not
aware about my strength and weakness for writing but with the session I learned that I am god
writer but I need to enhance my skills over providing clarity and evidence to content. Besides, I
have prepared my PDP plan which according to me helped me in learning about my core strength
and opportunities over the key theme of induction programmes.
Evaluation
In accordance to induction session, I evaluated that these sessions plays an important role
in lives of distant learner because it helps the individual in coordinating with all distant learners
which is the best way to derive competition and own strengths and weakness. Induction
programme are effective because it helps the person in integrating their learning and experience
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which is the best strategy to evaluate improvement measures (Kutsyuruba and Treguna, 2017).
However, I feel personal development plan is the best way to analyse own development plan
considering strengths, weakness, opportunities. Furthermore, with the help of PDP plan I
evaluated that it is important for me to focus on formatting of references because it is the only
thing which will helps in providing clarity over by writing and evidence to writing. In induction
programme I learned about the different styles of referencing that is APA, Harvard, Chicago and
many more. From the session I evaluated that every style has different way of formatting and in
texting. Moreover, I learned that it is important for me to cite ever reference to provide evidence
to my academic writing (Bailey, 2017). Academic writing is the learning which derives the
importance of two other themes of session that is plagiarism and references. Plagiarism is termed
as coying of content from some available sources and referencing is providing evidence to
writing.
Apart from this, I identified that there is a huge difference in own learning and learning in
induction session because in distant education, the individual have very limited source of
learning and analysing competition of real world. Therefore, I feel from the session I learned that
I hold strong control over two components of academic writing which is structuring and clarity.
In contrast, I realized my writing is not effective if I copy even a single word because it is
considered as plagiarism and every writing is checked on the software calling turnitin (Cronan,
Mullins and Douglas, 2018). Thus, with this, I discovered that induction session and personal
development programs assist the learners in analysing various shortcomings which needs to be
improved. According to my learning I feel induction session is the foremost option for distant
learners it helps the person in practical learning with the help of trainers. Apparently, During the
session I identified plagiarism is prohibited to writing and copying content is punishable offense
for learners. With this I discovered my opportunity I am the person of values and beliefs my
learning and academic writing are based on my person learning through different sources. Hence,
I discovered that it is important for me to develop my kills over referencing because I was aware
about the formatting of Harward and APA references due to which I was unable to provide
clarity and evidence to may various academic writings (Bornmann and Mutz, 2015).
Conclusion
From evaluation, I can hereby conclude that induction session plays an important role in
helping individual in learning. Sessions are the only option for distant learner which can helps
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the person in deriving their own skills and abilities. Further, I would like summarize by stating
about 5 components of academic writing which I learned in session that is clarity, structuring,
evidence, coherence and argument (Flowerdew and Wang, 2018). Moreover, I outlined by
Personal development plan which helped in learning about my different weakness and strengths
which I discovered in induction session. With the session I concluded three key themes of my
learning which were, referencing, plagiarism and academic writing.
Action plan
In accordance to my learning of induction session I analysed the need so improvement in
different areas like evidence and clarity in writing (Lillis and Curry, 2016). As per session and
PDP plan I analysed that from now I will focus on improving on clarity and evidence in my
content. For improving this I will focus on enhancing my formatting kills of references with
reference handbook. Apart from this, I will compare my writing to online articles in order to enhance
my writing and structuring. Further, I will write and compare my way of providing evidence with
authorised articles which will helps me in developing academic writing and referencing skills.
CONCLUSION
The report summarized reflective journal which helps the person in evaluating and
sharing own learning and experiences (Boekaerts, 2016). It identified learning of distant learner
from induction session in which the individual shared about key theme references, plagiarism
and academic writing. In this the person made own person development program to identify own
strengths and weakness which the individual has derived from induction session. Further, to
outline entire experience and learning, learner implemented the use of Gibbs Model which offers
the best structure to share and evaluate own experience of learning. Thus, the report concluded
with action plan in which the person has shared own improvement areas and ways of
improvement.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Kutsyuruba, B. and Treguna, L., 2017. Curbing early-career teacher attrition: A pan-Canadian
document analysis of teacher induction and mentorship programs. Canadian Journal of
Educational Administration and Policy. (161).
Youngs, P., Bieda, K. and Kim, J., 2017. Teacher Induction Programs that Lead to Retention in
the STEM Teaching Workforce.
Bailey, S., 2017. Academic writing: A handbook for international students. Routledge.
Flowerdew, J. and Wang, S.H., 2018. Professional Academic Writing. The TESOL Encyclopedia
of English Language Teaching.
Lillis, T. and Curry, M.J., 2016. Academic writing for publication in a multilingual world.
Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing. 11. p.201.
Bornmann, L. and Mutz, R., 2015. Growth rates of modern science: A bibliometric analysis
based on the number of publications and cited references. Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology. 66(11). pp.2215-2222.
Cronan, T.P., Mullins, J.K. and Douglas, D.E., 2018. Further understanding factors that explain
freshman business students’ academic integrity intention and behavior: Plagiarism and
sharing homework. Journal of Business Ethics. 147(1). pp.197-220.
D’Oca, S. and Hong, T., 2015. Occupancy schedules learning process through a data mining
framework. Energy and Buildings. 88. pp.395-408.
Boekaerts, M., 2016. Engagement as an inherent aspect of the learning process. Learning and
Instruction. 43. pp.76-83.
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APPENDIX
PDP plan of distance learner (Work based distance learning)
Stage One - Personal SWOT Analysis
Strengths
(internal factors)
Weaknesses
(internal factors)
From the induction program I derived that I
hold strong control over academic writing as
I am good in providing structure and clarity
to writing
In accordance to induction programme I
realized that Formatting in referencing is my
major weakness due to which I lack the skills
providing evidence and clarity to academic
writing.
Opportunities
(external factors)
Threats
(external factors)
From the induction programme I discovered
the importance of plagiarism and the
software used to detect it. In my opinion its
opportunity which will assist me in deriving
my skills over academic writing and
referencing.
Lacking skills of referencing can be threat to
my entire writing skills which can hamper
my distant learning.
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Stage Two - Setting Aims
Short Term Aims (next 12 months)
For improving clarity of writing and providing evidence I will focus on reading articles, journals.
I will compare plagiarised content and non plagiarised writing to ensure in going correct.
I will be doing 15 references daily of each style to improve my formatting style.
Medium Term Aims (1-4 years)
I will focus on writing and comparing my way of providing evidence with authorised articles.
I will focus on attending training for references to improve formatting and learn about different style
of referencing
I will review Referencing Handbook
Long Term Aims (5 years +)
I will focus on writing blogs and online articles to evaluate my learning over academic writing,
plagiarism and referencing
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Stage Three - Setting Objectives
What are my development
objectives?
Priority
Delete as
applicable
What activities do I
need to undertake to
achieve my objectives?
What support/resources do I
need to achieve my objectives
Target date for
achieving objectives
Actual date of
achieving
objectives
Writing online articles High  Learning from
Referencing
Handbook
 Attending
Induction
Activities
 Attend online
induction and
training session
Referencing Handbook
feedback from teachers
Online induction and training
sessions
05/05/18 01/08/18
Writing online blogs Medium
 Learning from
Referencing
Handbook
 Attending
Induction
Activities
 Attend online
Referencing Handbook
feedback from teachers
Online induction and training
sessions
05/06/18 30/11/18
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induction and
training session
To provide teaching on academic
writing
Medium
 Learning from
Referencing
Handbook
 Attending
Induction
Activities
 Attend online
induction and
training session
Referencing Handbook
feedback from teachers
Online induction and training
sessions
05/10/18 15/12/18
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