Reporting or Reconstructing? The Zine as a Medium for Reflecting on Research Experiences

摘要

Inaresearch-basedcourse,undergraduatethirdyearstudentswereaskedtosubmittheirreflectionsontheirresearchexperienceinthezinemedium.Whiletheliteratureshowsthatthezinemediumcanencouragestudentstoreflectmeaningfullyabouttheirexperiences,evaluatingthemedium,whichisamixoftextandvisuals,canbechallengingfortheinstructor.Thispaperexploresthevalueofzinesasamediumforreflectionusingthe4RReflectionScaleasaframework.The4RScalebyRyanandRyan(2015)outlinesfourlevels,reportingandresponding,relating,reasoningandreconstructing,todeterminethedepthofthinkinginthereflection.Thezinesanalyzedusingthe4RReflectionScaleshowthatstudentswerelikelytoreportandrespondontheirresearchexperience(lowestlevelonthereflectionscale)ratherthanreconstruct(highestlevelonthereflectionscale).