H818 – The Networked Practitioner

Use of blog to enhance students’ revision and

critical reflection skills

Module Conference Presentation

Prepared by: Sixbert SANGWA

 Introduction
•There has been increasing use technology in
education (Young & Stover, 2015).

•Increased mobile ownership by students

(Daniel, 2016)

• Increased use of web 2.0 tools, especially blog

(Ersin et al., 2011, Christopher, 2014 and
Emma et al., 2016 ).
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 Introduction

Few studies explored how blog can

enhance revision and critical reflection
skills (Pham & Usaha 2016).

This study explored blog’s effectiveness in

this matter with focus on implementation

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Why Revision and Critical Reflection Skills?

Not often studied nor taught in schools(Cohen, 2013);

Yet, most important skills in learning (Slater, 2012).

Revision improves students’ performance

(Galbraith & Torrance, 2004)!

Critical Reflection facilitates introspective

learning (Shadomo, 2018)

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 Implementation

Context
Refugee
camp

Implementation Class B Class A

Peers
Pedagogy Blog No Blog
reviews

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 Evaluation

Common Post-
training Test
Class B
Feedback
Evaluation Survey

Common Post-
Class A
training Test

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 Results of The Post-training Common Test

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 Results of The Post-training Common Test

The average scores for each class were respectively:

Class B

75.70% 71.25%

Class A
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 Student Feedback Survey

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 Student Feedback Survey

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 Student Feedback Survey

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Conclusion
Students
performance

Effective use
of blog

Lifelong learning
Peer reflection

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Identified Project Gaps

Lifelong • Ask participants to create online

learning CV for peer feedback

Student • Ask students to suggest

feedback improvement

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 End

Thank you!
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