Using student reflection to achieve deeper and more visible learning

Communication and Language instructors from four institutions will facilitate interactive engagement with themes addressing student learning. Participants analyze examples of student reflections across disciplines and institutional contexts and discuss evidence of improvement in student engagement. All presenters are faculty participants in the Collaborative Humanities Redesign Project (CHRP), a three-year cross-institutional collaboration focusing on transforming humanities courses to enhance student learning. This panel explores the role of student reflections as a ways of making learning visible and meaningful to students and to instructors. The panel will structure discussion about using reflection to inform assignment design, to enhance the development of intercultural learning, to facilitate participation and collaboration among students and understanding lack of participation, and to create relationships between instructors and students. Participants will also discuss the process of evaluating reflections and using student work to create prompts for reflections.