5R Framework for Reflection
The PSI Project has selected the 5R Framework for Reflection as the guide to critically engage and make sense of your learning experience as you create, revise, and polish your School Interpreting Website. You will use the 5R Framework as you compose webpages which include both artifacts (course materials, activities, and assignments) and reflections about the artifacts and your demonstration of the SIS Competencies.
The use of the 5R Framework in the School Interpreting Website is adapted from the University of Edinburgh (2018).
The 5R Framework for Composing a Reflection
Reporting - Use past tense to state key elements / experiences (e.g., who, what, when, where,
etc.)
Responding - Use past tense to present reactions / responses to key elements / experiences (e.g.,
feelings and thoughts)
Relating - Use present tense to connect experiences with knowledge and skills
Reasoning - Use present tense to explore the significant factors and theoretical knowledge
and skills relevant to the experience (e.g., how does theory and knowledge help you
understand your experiences?)
Reconstructing - Use future tense to draw conclusions about future practice and actions (e.g., where
do you go from here? what are you next steps?)
The Reflection Continuum
The 5R Framework outlines the composition of a reflection - what elements make up a reflection. Additionally, reflections have a quality or deepness to them. Reflection quality follows a continuum from advanced / critical reflection to novice / non-reflection.
The following continuum outlines levels of reflection and is adapted from Kember et al (2008).
Critical Reflection
Reflection
Understanding
Non-Reflection
- Deep deliberate thought
- Moderate deliberate thought
- Minor deliberate thought
- Little deliberate thought
- Understands immediate experience within complex contexts
- Understands immediate experience within a broader context
- Understands only the immediate experience
- No attempt to understand immediate experience
- Superior application
- Underlying connections
- Moderate application
- Moderate connections
- Some application
- Some connections
- Automatic application
- Superficial connections
- Transformative insight to self
- Many other points of view
- Moderate insight to self
- Some other points of view
- Limited insight about self
- Few other points of view
- No insight about self
- No other points of view
- Everything is gray
- Superior analysis needed
- Mostly gray & little black and white
- Moderate analysis needed
- Mostly black and white & little gray
- Little analysis needed
- Everything is black and white
- No analysis needed
Reference
Kember, D., McKay, J., Sinclair, K., Kam, F., & Wong, Y. (2008). A four-category scheme for coding and assessing the level of reflection in written work. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(4), 369-379.
The University of Edinburgh. (2018, November 5). The 5R framework for reflection. Reflection Toolkit. https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/5r-framework
