Publication Date

5-2009

Type of Culminating Activity

Dissertation

Degree Title

Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction

Department

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies

Supervisory Committee Chair

Stanley Steiner, Ph.D.

Supervisory Committee Member

Jennifer Snow-Gerono, Ph.D.

Supervisory Committee Member

Susan Martin, Ph.D.

Supervisory Committee Member

Lawrence Rogien, Ph.D.

Abstract

“Learning improves to the degree that it arises out of the process of reflection.”

Shermis, 1999

In the past 10-15 years, numerous commissions, boards, and foundations as well as states and local school districts have identified reflection/inquiry as a standard toward which all teachers and students must strive not only in meeting new educational reforms but in helping maintain a dynamic, democratic society. The focus of this study was to examine the impact of using guided, structured reflective prompts and written discourse occurring between students and teachers within a college-level reading and study strategies course. Although there is a large body of research on the topic of reflection, none speak to its practice within this specific context.

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