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Reflection detection in action

ReflectR is a tool for researchers who are interested in analysing texts whether they are reflective or non-reflective. Traditionally this assessment had to be done manually by three coders who needed to agree whether a text was reflective or not. ReflectR can do this categorisation automatically, as it can compare your input with its huge collection of reflective and descriptive texts and give you instant feedback whether your sentence is reflective or descriptive/non-reflective. Currently ReflectR works only for sentences. In the future you will be able to analyse whole documents. Try it out and analyse a sentence.
At the bottom of the page you will find useful information about examples of automatically analysed sentences, and more about reflective and non-reflective/descriptive sentences. If you like it, please spread the word. See also the latest news section below. The short and permanent URL of ReflectR is http://qone.eu/reflectr.

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About ReflectR

ReflectR is a tool based on the work of Thomas Ullmann on the automated analysis of reflection in text. ReflectR is a research prototype used for demonstration purposes. If you are researching reflective writings and/or are interested in the best method to automatically detecting reflection, get in contact with me. ReflectR is constantly developed and researched, which means that classification results for the same sentence may vary as I trial different classification models, etc.

What are reflective and descriptive/non-reflective sentences?

What is a reflective sentence? If you are writing up your thoughts thinking about solutions to personal important often problematic experiences, which may require a change of perspective in order to gain a better understanding of the situation and yourself, then you are writing in a reflective way.
What is a descriptive/non-reflective sentence? These are sentences characterised as only describing or summarising what happened, or quickly coming to solutions or decisions, without questioning the grounds of your decisions, beliefs or frame-of-reference.
See below for examples of reflective and non-reflective sentences.

Example sentences and ReflectR outcome

Here you can find example sentences which ReflectR automatically analysed. It shows in each row the sentence, the classification result (reflective vs. descriptive/non-reflective) and how confident ReflectR is about the classification (high confidence, medium confidence, low confidence). As I am currently testing several classification models, the outcome of ReflectR may vary. The tendency of the classification however will be similar to the classification results and confidence values shown in this table.

Sentence	Classification	Confidence
As is I feel everyone simply expects to be given an A for simply being a member of the team - something I begrudge and then I have no way to reward the team members who have put a lot in.	reflective	high
I hadn't really thought of it like this before but by empathising with Mary's situation I better appreciate the importance of the patient's perspective.	reflective	high
Being critically and analytic thinking leads to a greater personal change of my beliefs, values and behavioural norms; this have been shown in the holiday when I was home.	reflective	high
I believe that the situations where I was not able to acquire command of basic facts and continuing sensitivity to events should not be regarded in a negative way.	reflective	high
Moving into the world of full time work after my first year at university was quite a shock.	reflective	medium
On arrival we were informed that the patients had been taken to another hospital but we were to remain on site in case there was another bomb.	descriptive/non-reflective	high
Using this basis I have constructed a fishbone diagram below which can be used to delve into the problems at EHL.	descriptive/non-reflective	high
After all meeting up before the Christmas holidays, we decided that we should all take a section, and bring it back after the holiday, put it all together, and then input all of our thoughts for making improvements.	descriptive/non-reflective	high
I selected some passages of The Lonely Londoners and included them in my rewriting word for word.	descriptive/non-reflective	high

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About ReflectR

What are reflective and descriptive/non-reflective sentences?

Example sentences and ReflectR outcome

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