THE DESIGN OF REFLECTION

This paper is about reflection. The authors investigated reflection in the context of formal written project journals. Seven groups of Masters students were asked to keep journals while they worked on projects in industry. On completion of each series of projects, they commented on the suitability of the journal design as far as reflection was concerned and modifications, based on their comments, were made. It is our argument that the design of journals for reflection is sensitive to design issues such as the intended audience, assessment, asynchronous reflection, putting concerns into writing and reflecting against a concern