Once you have identified the focal practice(s) of this reflection, the next stage is to analyse what is working well, or not, and why.

  • What do you think has worked well about the tools/techniques/approaches you are using?
  • How do you know it has worked well?
  • What have you been able to do, progress with or achieve?

Note that progress and achievement is not about focussing solely on the end task of 'finishing an assignment', but also how you are making progress via a range of different tasks, at different stages, for instance having found a relevant article to read or aligned in-text references with the reference list of an assignment in progress.

  • What hasn't worked so well? 
  • Why has this tool/technique/approach not 'worked'?
  • In what ways hasn't it worked?
  • How might you respond to this?
  • Are there further adaptations which could be made to alter the use of this tool/technique/approach to better fit the situation? 

It's likely that there'll be approaches which do not work for us for a range of reasons. Rather than feeling as though this is something we aren't 'doing right', this is where reflection can help us to consider what is/isn't working and how we might adapt our approach or thinking to the situation. It may be that the current situation is providing barriers that require some negotiation, or thinking about.