The importance of reflection in good competency evidence
Your ability to reflect on practice is really important. It will help you to progress and improve your practice.
Last Updated: 17th September 2020
Good competency evidence should show how you undertook and understood the activity.
Your ability to reflect on practice is really important. It will help you to progress and improve your practice.
‘It is not sufficient to have an experience in order to learn. Without reflecting on this experience, it may quickly be forgotten, or its learning potential lost.’ (Gibbs, 1988, p9).
To achieve good reflective writing, you could:
Writing reflectively for the purpose of an assessment is not simply describing something that happened, nor is it everything you think and feel. Being reflective means critically evaluating a task, a test or experience. And in many cases the reflection should seek to draw on standards and frameworks and guidance to evaluate the experience.
The points below are designed to help you produce reflective evidence about key events and experiences for your competencies.
Books: Gibbs, G (1988). Learning by doing: a guide to teaching and learning methods. Oxford: Further Education Unit, Oxford Polytechnic.
The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books. Williams, K, Woolliams, M and Spiro, J (2012). Reflective Writing. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.