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Reviewing Failure As Part Of Reflection: A Potential Predictor Of Health Sciences Students’ Successes, Michael Cop, Hunter Hatfield
Reviewing Failure As Part Of Reflection: A Potential Predictor Of Health Sciences Students’ Successes, Michael Cop, Hunter Hatfield
International Journal of Health Sciences Education
Purpose: The authors examined Health Sciences students’ willingness to reflect on an academic failure at the students’ point-of-entrance into university in order to gauge how students’ willingness to engage in reflective tasks might be predictive of their subsequent academic success and, ultimately, of their potential to become health professionals.
Methods: Following Health Sciences students’ failure on an English diagnostic test, the authors determined the proportion of 568 Health Sciences students who voluntarily reviewed or did not review (SR and SNR respectively) their failed tests before sitting a second-chance test 60 days later. The authors then compared the improvements between SR …