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- Title
Using Guided Essays to Assess and Encourage Reflective Thinking.
- Authors
Wood, Phillip K.; Lynch, Cindy L.
- Abstract
Reflective Judgment (RJ) model of cognitive development identifies increasingly complex assumptions about knowledge and justification of beliefs that adolescents and adults use in thinking about problems that do not have very clear-cut correct answers, often called ill-structured problems. To date, RJ has been operationalized via Reflectic Judgment Interview (RJI). Research using the interview has repeatedly confirmed the status of RJ as a general cognitive outcome of higher education, the developmental nature of such reasoning, and the difference in such reasoning across institutions and educational settings. The questions used in RJI have been adapted successfully by faculty in a wide variety of disciplines to assess informally the assumptions students use when faced with ill-structured problems and to provide an avenue for feedback to the students about their approaches to the problems.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE Abilities Test; PRACTICAL judgment; COGNITIVE psychology; PROBLEM solving
- Publication
Assessment Update, 1998, Vol 10, Issue 2, p14
- ISSN
1041-6099
- Publication type
Article