Jordi Colomer participates in the paper entitled “Improving and evaluating reflective narratives: A rubric for higher education students”, published in the “Teaching and Teacher Education” journal, together with members of the Departments of Specific Didactics, Economics, Pedagogy, and Psychology of the University of Girona, the Department of Nursing of the University of Cantabria and the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University.

Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, or teacher education situated in an international perspective or in an international context. This journal is multidisciplinary, committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology or paradigm. It is concerned with teaching and teacher education in general and devoted to all concerned with teaching.

In this paper, the authors present a new instrument for the evaluation and improvement of the reflective narratives of students in higher education: the Rubric for Narrative Reflection Assessment (NARRA). First, they describe the process of construction of the rubric, with its elements, indicators and levels. Second, they present the results of a validation process that used the judgements of external experts, who confirmed the usefulness of the instrument. Third, they show the results of NARRA's first application to students' narratives. The authors conclude that the new rubric they propose works well in grading the degree of reflection on the basis of subjective texts.

This collaborative research contribution is conducted within the framework of the Teaching Innovation Network on Reflective Learning of the University of Girona.