Reflective writing is often used to promote self-regulated learning amongst students. While its benefits are well documented, there is a need for research on the impact of reflective writing in engineering education (Clark and Dickerson, 2019). We describe the implementation and examine the impact of two types of reflective writing exercises⎯an exam wrapper and self-evaluation⎯in an introductory photonics course.

Date Published: 2 July 2019
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 11143, Fifteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2019, 111432H (2 July 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2523502

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11143:
Fifteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2019
Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard; Joseph A. Shaw, Editor(s)