Zhang C, Schießl J, Plößl L, Hofmann F, Gläser-Zikuda M (2022)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Abstract of lecture
Publication year: 2022
Pages Range: 72-73
Event location: Berlin (Online)
In teacher education, reflection is seen as a crucial aspect of professionalization (Hatton & Smith, 1995) and may
be supported by using a portfolio (Gläser-Zikuda, Feder, & Hofmann, 2020). To analyze reflective writing and the quality of reflection ,in recent years, researchers on the one hand use qualitative analyses (Fütterer, 2019), on the
other hand automated and multi-dimensional approaches became relevant (Kovanović et al., 2018;Ullmann, 2019).
Therefore, the aim of the study (funded by the BMBF) is (a) to analyze the quality of reflection using different
research methods, (b) to explore the relation between linguistic features of reflective writing and the quality of
reflection, and (c) to identify gender differences in linguistic features and quality of reflection. N = 709 pre-service
students wrote reflections using an e-portfolio related to specific educational tasks. For the analysis, we applied a
structured qualitative content analysis (Gläser-Zikuda,Hagenauer, & Stephan,2020) and computerlinguistic
analyses (Pennebaker et al.,2015) to analyze the quality of reflection (Fleck & Fitzpatrick,2010) in n = 100 texts
randomly selected out of 506 texts. The results of the content analysis indicate that the hierarchy of pre-service
teachers’ reflections was distributed at the low and middle levels (Description = 20, Reflective Description = 61,
and Dialogic Reflection = 17), while reflections at the high level (Transformative Reflection and Critical
Reflection) were not. Second, the linguistic features collected using LIWC were not statistically different in
morphology, syntax, and semantics at different levels of reflection. Nevertheless, the linguistic features at the
morphology level were significant in the reflective writing by gender.
APA:
Zhang, C., Schießl, J., Plößl, L., Hofmann, F., & Gläser-Zikuda, M. (2022). Quality of pre-service teachers’ reflections – a mixed-method study. Paper presentation at Reflexion in der Lehrkräftebildung: empirisch - phasenübergreifend - interdisziplinär, Berlin (Online).
MLA:
Zhang, Chengming, et al. "Quality of pre-service teachers’ reflections – a mixed-method study." Presented at Reflexion in der Lehrkräftebildung: empirisch - phasenübergreifend - interdisziplinär, Berlin (Online) 2022.
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