Improving learner-driven teaching practices through reflective assessment

Objective: Reflective assessment is an effective method of teacher evaluation, serving as an approach for, assessing teaching practices, generating insights, and connecting with colleagues, ultimately supporting meaningful transformation of teaching practice. In this paper, three librarians model a reflective assessment approach in evaluating and improving their experiences implementing learner-driven teaching practices in credit-bearing courses in topics related to library and information studies.

Methods: Following a model of reflective assessment, we ask ourselves how our practice can better support learner-driven teaching practices, thus assessing and improving our own teaching and improving students’ learning experiences. Our process involved five steps: cohere around shared viewpoints; identify teaching practices for reflection; conduct reflection; discuss and analyze reflections to produce insights; apply insights to improve teaching.

Results: We reflect on five different l...