Research Methods Reflective Report: Key Skills Development

Personal reflection and learning journey

Task

Personal reflection is based on your learning experience in this unit and its relevance to your learning journey thus far. You are
required to evidence how you have developed and used key skills that are beneficial for your research practice and writing skills.
You might include evidence and links to key skill development in the following areas:

• Communication (evidenced by reflecting on your experience across the whole three years of the learning journey. Such evidence should be both verbal and written – evidenced by classroom discussion, presentations and report writing)

• Numeracy – (evidenced by examples of using data and statistics in your seminar activities and in the main submission)

• Research – (evidenced by the use of relevant sources and information for A1 and in the course of your unit).

• Problem Solving (evidenced by examples of analysis and information gathering, during the course of the unit and in the submission
of the A1 assignment)

• Produce a reflective report which is supported by the evidence written within the weekly observations.

• The reflective writing should demonstrate some basic recognition of the relevance of business research to your professional development.

• Apply at least one theoretical model which explains the learning process and evidence.

How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions

The Assessment 1 problem-based report is paired with this reflective report that should provide an insight to the student of the
deep learning process they engage in as they evolve via the unit assessment regime.

This reflective element prepares the students two-fold; first it makes them aware of their own professional and academic
development thus preparing them for the workplace, second it exposes them to reflective writing before they embark to the
dissertation journey thus sensitising them to the reflective elements of the dissertation.

Reflective account of learning journey and key skills development

-Reflective accounts that tend to be descriptive. Very basic or generic discussion of key skills development.

-Reflective accounts of mixed quality; reasonable consideration of key skills development but lacking in connection to specific unit activities or concepts.

-Good quality reflective accounts that tend to be reflective first and analytical second. Good consideration of key skills development.

-Thorough, well written reflective accounts of the student’s learning journey. Excellent consideration of key skills development that is firmly grounded in specific unit activities or concepts.

Application of reflective model or models

-Basic or largely incorrect application of reflective models.

-Reasonable application of reflective models without major errors but may be restricted to a small portion of the report or lacking full application.

-Good application of reflective models without major errors. Applied consistently throughout report.

-Excellent application of reflective model or models without error and enabling deeper insight through consistent and thoughtful application throughout report.