Reflective Practices and Academic Achievement of Students: A Correlational Study

This study aim was to investigate the relationship between reflective practices and academic achievement of students at university level. The study purpose was to compare the reflective practices of male and female students at university of Sargodha; and determining the relationship between reflective practices and academic achievement of students at university of Sargodha. Descriptive survey research design was used in this study. The target population was the undergraduate students of University of Sargodha. The sample of the study was 400 undergraduates’ students (200 from faculty of Physical Sciences and 200 from Social Sciences). Sample was selected by using convenient sampling technique. An adopted instrument “development of a questionnaire to measure the level of reflective thinking” by Kember et al. (2000) used in this study. Data was collected by personal visits of researcher from university of Sargodha selected departments. The data was analyzed by computing the descriptive and inferential statistics. Researcher applied independent sample t test to compare the reflective practices of male and female students at university of Sargodha. Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis was used for determining the relationship between reflective practices and academic achievement of students at university of Sargodha. Collected data was analyzed by using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. Descriptive statistics frequency, mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics Independent Sample t test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used for analysis of collected data. The findings of the study revealed that there was no significant difference between the reflective practices of male and female university students and there was significant positive relationship between reflective practices and academic achievement of university students. This study could be replicated further on larger sample size using a combined and qualitative research for better understanding the reflective practices among undergraduates’ university students. Seminars and workshop would be conducted department wise to enhance the reflective practices of students