Measuring the Levels of Reflective Judgment in Interprofessional Projects

The interprofessional projects program (IPRO) at IIT is comprised primarily of undergraduate student project teams focused on solving a real world problem. Reflection in service-learning and applied settings has been found to increase student ability to analyze problems. In the spring of 2006 we implemented a reflections pilot to test the level of reflective judgment in the students involved in the IPRO program. Reflections were coded to assess the degree of reflective judgment. Our results from spring 2006 indicate students function at pre to quasi reflective level of reflective judgment. The data has provided information to improve our reflections within the IPRO program.