Development of a Reflective Ability Assessment Package to Enhance Pre-service Teachers’ Level of Reflection
Keywords:
reflective practice, pre-service teacher, assessing level of reflective thinkingAbstract
Nowadays, teachers should be equipped with reflective thinking ability; the ability to contemplate one past actions to improve one’s teaching practice. With this consideration in mind, this study was conducted with two purposes, 1) to develop a reflective ability assessment tool and 2) to investigate the effectiveness of the assessment package on pre-service teachers’ level of reflection. Educational research and development design was employed to develop the reflective ability assessment package. The participants of this study included four English-majored pre-service teachers who were attending the 2nd-semester teaching practicum of the academic year 2011. Data received from implementing the reflective ability assessment was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The findings revealed that 1) reflective ability assessment package consisted of three main components; teaching video clips as a trigger, guiding questions as an idea potential reinforcement or scaffold, and quality assessment; and 2) the improvement of pre-service teachers’ level of reflection was divided into two groups; positive development group and neutral development group.
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