Student: Final Reflection

The student's final reflection accompanies their self-evaluation, providing evidence for the score they propose. It is also space for them to advocate outside of normal criteria. Ungrading often reveals moments where students learned something unexpected but nonetheless valuable.

This is the very last thing a student should do, after submitting all other materials.

Final Reflection

You made it! One last thing for you to do before we close out the term, and that's to reflect on the full learning experience and complete your self-evaluation.

Identify a time and space for you to do 2-3 hours of reflective work. Start by re-reading your initial and midpoint reflections, and once you've got all that held in your head, have a cup of tea or a snack, and settle in.

Need help figuring out how to write this? Remember the 5R Framework for reflection: report, respond, relate, reason, and reconstruct.

Goals

Review the goals you initially had and any changes made at the midpoint.

1. Which of these goals did you accomplish, and how?

2. Which of these goals did you not accomplish but wish you had (and think you could have, if only...)?

3. Which of these goals should have been phrased differently or just not included? Why? What lessons can you learn from this moving forward?

Work Quality

For each of these questions, please use documentation from your submitted work and your design journal as evidence for your claims. For example: are you claiming you learned the importance of proactively communicating about your work in a team setting? Include notes from your design journal, photos of your team working together, team peer evaluations, or some other documentation that demonstrates effective teamwork.

Note that this portion of your reflection is not about the mere completion of work (that's what the 40% of your grade for completion exists for). Instead, focus on the way in which you completed the work that you did, and the quality of the work you have submitted. Each of these questions should be answered for both what you learned about your process and what you accomplished with your products.

Question	Process	Product
What are 2-3 achievements that you are really proud of? Don't be shy!
What are 2-3 major obstacles that you really strugled with? How did things turn out? Failure is normal!
Identify 2-3 key things that you learned, skills that you reinforced, or behaviors that you adopted (for the good)? Be as specific as possible here.

Self-Evaluation

Finally, take a moment to rate how successful* you think you were in terms of both process and final products. Know that bumps in the road are completely normal, and it's how you react to these bumps that evidence your success. If you don't run into challenges, you don't learn. If you run away from challenges, you also don't learn. Success is not about perfect execution or taking easy paths; it's about hard work, facing setbacks bravely, and moving forward.

*Instructor Note: criteria for success should be communicated regularly in class, providing students with vocabulary to complete this portion effectively. This was also a focus of the instructor's midpoint reflection.