Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle Portfolio Assessment Brief 2024-25 | UWE Bristol

Module learning outcomes assessed by this task:

MO1 Contextualise the purpose and process of Management in contemporary contexts.

MO2 Have a thorough understanding of contemporary business and organisations, and an overview of the main disciplines and functions of business.

MO3 Be able to describe and understand the nature of contemporary organisations and business activities, i.e. their management structures and challenges; and the changing environment in which these organisations operate.

MO4 Develop an awareness of what it means to be a management professional and start to build their professional identity through the use of reflection and planning.

Part One

The first is a self-reflection on an example of decision making from your life, and critically analyse it to identify how you can further develop it in the future.

This should be 1000 words.

What am I required to do on this assessment?

Drawing on academic literature on decision making and reflection you need to engage in self-reflection on an example from your life and identify how your skills it could be improved. It is essential that you use a model of self-reflection in this piece, we will advise you two in the lectures and workshops, Kolb’s Experiential  Learning Cycle and Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle. SELECT ONE and use this to structure your work.
Similarly, ensure you focus on just one single event not a general instance. The most common problems students face engaging well with reflection is focusing on a broad example rather than a singular event.

Part Two

The second is a summarisation of a journal article to be discussed in class. This must be picked from the reading list 
You will be given a template and don’t need to write more than an A4 page. The focus of this will be: 
Identify the key points of the paper.
What key literature debates it is situated in?
Describe how it reached these conclusions, what was the method and the results?
Briefly provide any thoughts you have about the paper, and if possible, one or two papers you thought may be useful to follow up on.

This journal summary will need to be brought to class as the basis of two exercises:
Creating a list of reading and summaries for the class.
Reflection on reading academic material.

Part Three

The third is an overview of three journal articles which agree and/or disagree.
This aim of this is to identify three short summaries and provide clearer discussion of the connections between the three pieces. The first source you want to add context to must be from the reading list.
You will be given a template and don't need to write more than two A4 pages. The focus of this will be: 

• Agree
• Disagree
• Why

Throughout your are expected to try and find a single “point” within the first piece and follow it – this could be the entire arguments conclusion or it could be a single point from its own literature review. But the point is to consider different perspectives on an issue.

This needs to be brought to class as the basis for two exercises:
Proving a side… 

Reflection on critical analysis.