Make sure it hangs together

Make sure that your conclusions regarding your development/learning directly relate to the experiences you describe.

If you use the University’s eportfolio PebblePad, you may find the ‘Thought’ tool useful (Create > Thought > Reflective cycle). This gives you space to record your:

  • experience - what was involved in your experience;
  • reaction - what you did and felt in this experience;
  • analysis - what you can learn from this; and
  • planning - what you will do differently as a result in the future.

These map easily onto the CARL framework (experience=context; reaction=action; analysis and planning=result and learning).

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