Reflective Learning: Improving Formative Assessments with Feedback

This essay discusses the importance of reflective learning, highlighting its role in helping students understand their learning behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses. It explores Gibbs' Reflective Cycle as a framework for managing learning experiences and emphasizes the significance of feedback and feed-forward processes in improving formative assessments. The essay also covers how these processes can be used to address challenges, generate new ideas, and enhance overall performance in academic settings, enabling students to achieve their goals and develop effective learning strategies for the future. The essay concludes that reflective learning is a vital technique through which students not only gain effective learning but also analyze their strengths and weaknesses. With the help of the GIBBS model, there are certain methods of reflection and individual experience in which feedbacks and feed-forward is the technique which ensures future programs in an appropriate manner. Moreover, there is the significance of formative and summative assessment in the overall working by which students can maintain their future goals.

Discuss the importance
of reflective learning
and describe how a
reflective approach to
feedback and feed-
forward can inform
and improve future
formative
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflective learning is the active learning that is not assist the managing the work but it
also helps in managing the assignment of the student in an given period of time. With this,
student can rightly understand their personal learning behaviour and the identifies their strengths
and weaknesses(Steen-Utheim and Foldnes, 2018). It is basically considered as the method that
helps in managing the unconscious task and give them the knowledge so that they can look into
the matter in an appropriate manner and deal with the actions. Moreover, Reflective learning
helps the student in their further studies and this not only provide he various types of working to
the student but also provide them the feedback of their working by which they can rightly
improve their overall working and tackle the certain issues which is being faced by them so that
they can manage their working in the given learning. This respective essay will cover the Gibbs
reflection life cycle & description of the reflective approach to the feedback and feed-forward.
Moreover, it will cover the various methods which improves the overall formative and
summative assessment.
TASK
Reflective is being defined as the analysation of the people, their own skills & experience
which is not only helps in managing the learning. It is being considered as the vital methods in
which the leaders manage their learning and get the professional development and self
confidence with self-awareness. In the year of 1998, GIBBS Reflective cycle is being formed by
Graham Gibbs. It is the structure which have given by them through an individual can easily
manage their learning experience. There are certain types of methods also the ways which is
being evaluated with the help of reflective cycle so that people can rightly whether this assists in
appropriate management or not. This respective cycle integrated with six stages and the
descriptions being done on the first stage in which the individual explains the given situation
with the proper details that includes the situation happened and the outcome get from the
situation. This basically applies all the information of the situation that is surrounded and going
to take place(Tharayil and et. al., 2018). In the second stage, feelings of the individual is being
describes, individual usually describe and evaluates their feelings that are being made during
their experience. As the inner instincts also the thoughts of the people are given by then that are
running in the mind of the people while they are doing nay sort of work through any or the given

situation. Better evaluation is being analysed as the third stage of this respective model in which
all the negative and the positive situation has been determined. This also assist the people in
managing the emphasis on the areas in which they are lacking and going through certain
challenges. Next stage of this respective model is analysis in which the person or only get the
opportunity to analyse all the events but this also helps them to reframe and determined all the
given situation in context to the loopholes as due to which the given events is not organised
properly. The next stage is the conclusion in this model, in this all the actions, knowledge and
results are being summarise that are being used by the individual due to such events. Last stage
of this model is the Action plan, that is being considered as the most vital phase and this basic
stage made the individual to conduct all the related task and the given assignment by which they
can rightly complete the given task and remove what is not needed in the given situation. In this,
the realisation of the given work is being done and skills has been developed so far.
The feedback is being refereed to the review of the task that are being given to the people
on the given situation or the work that are being performed by the student. Majorly, feedback has
taken by such individuals who are more expert in the field and they are having the specific skills
in consideration to the given work. As the feedback is being collected from the individuals may
be positive or negative, by doing so, individual get all the necessary information in context to the
given performance. Whereas, the process of feed-forward is basically different from the given
process of feedback. By using such theories or concept, individual can replace their work that is
being done by them by which they can manage their given work and achieve the effective
management to have their working so that they can rightly achieve the overall working in their
given learning(Bean and et. al., 2018). With the help of this process, people can replace the
work that is being done by them so that they can manage their given task in order to attains the
effective management by which they can rightly achieve the future objectives. This is the plan
that is given by the superior to the subordinate by which they can manage all the give situation
and handle them in an appropriate manner. The respective process of feedbacks and feed-forward
is effectively analyse by the people with the use of this GIBBS reflective cycle. This cycle is
being considered as the major part which is being seen in this stage. With the help of action plan
sages, an individual can easily analyse and make their goals and programme by which they can
manage their given work in an appropriate manner.

Feedbacks and feed-forward is being used as the most vital process that is used by the
individual to manage the certain issues in an appropriate manner so that the effectiveness of the
given situation can be retained to them(Martin and Bolliger, 2018). As the individual can rightly
focuses on the certain issues by analysing the pros and cons of the business in the given work. In
academics, they are conducting the overall working of the people that are present in the given
work. In context to this, creating and managing of the work is important so that they can rightly
sustain in the market for long period of time. It is the important part as it helps in the overall
working of the employees then they become more focused in which they are not effectively
working. In addition to this, this also helps in evaluating the overall events and working by
which the learner or the student can rightly manage and maintain the summative and the
formative assignment in an appropriate manner. This has been seen that the feedbacks plays the
significant role in influencing the students so that they can rightly ensures the better working of
them by which they can sustain in the learning with the long period of time by understanding
their pros and cons. Feedbacks helps in generating the new ideas and leads to measure the certain
issues in order to solve them. This is vital for the seniors by which they can rightly focuses on
the overall working and the consideration of the employees. Feed forward is being used so that
the certain measures is being taken by which they can overcome the challenges that is being
faced by the student at the time of their assignment. Additionally, the tactics can be developed by
which they can make their bright career. This piece of work are reflected in the formative and
summative assessment. This respective feedback is being collected to be self-aware and
increases the overall confidence to complete the given work in an appropriate manner. Feed-
forward is being considered as the most significant elements that helps in making the bin for the
near future by which student can grow in their given field.
CONCLUSION
It is being summarised from the above essay that reflective learning is the vital technique
through which the student not only gain the effective learning but it basically analyse the
strengths and weakness. With the help of GIBBS model, there are certain method of reflection
and the individual experience in which feedbacks and feed-forward is the technique which
ensures the future programme in an appropriate manner. Moreover, there is the signifiant of
formative and summative assessment in the overall working by which they can maintain their
future goals by the student.

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