Validation and use of the Newcastle Reflective Analysis Tool: A three-year longitudinal study of RT students' reflective journals

Reflective Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-94

  Findlay, Naomi ^a   Dempsey, Shane ^a   Forward, Helen Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Health professionals; Reflective writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952960129     PISSN: 14623943     EISSN: 14701103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14623940903500077     Document Type: Article

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