Lutz, B. D., & Paretti, M. C. (2019, June), Development and Implementation of a Reflective Journaling Method for Qualitative Research  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32646

\bibitem{asee_peer_32646}
  Lutz, B. D., \& Paretti, M. C. (2019, June), \emph{Development and Implementation of a Reflective Journaling Method for Qualitative Research}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32646

Benjamin David Lutz and Marie C. Paretti.  "Development and Implementation of a Reflective Journaling Method for Qualitative Research".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32646 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32646}
  Benjamin David Lutz and Marie C. Paretti.
  "Development and Implementation of a Reflective Journaling Method for Qualitative Research".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32646 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of a qualitative method used to study the transition experiences of recent mechanical engineering graduates. The school-to-work transition is a critical point on an engineer’s career trajectory and involves substantial changes over a relatively short period of time. To date, however, the experiences of newcomer engineers have been especially challenging to capture through systematic empirical approaches. To address noted limitations, we developed a data collection strategy that captures regular participant reflections during an ongoing experience. We sent weekly emails to 12 recent engineering graduates during the first 12 weeks of their jobs and asked them to recount a significant learning event. Each week, participants discussed a significant challenge, accomplishment, or realization, describing the activity itself, the role of facilitators, and their own beliefs about what they learned. 
Findings suggest that weekly reflective prompts can be effectively used to capture the experiences and perceptions of recent engineering graduates as they move from school to work. Participants used the weekly reflections to provide rich descriptions of their experiences throughout the transition that offered unique insight into the conditions that prompt learning in practice. We argue that the reflective prompt methodology has promise for investigating the lived experiences of both recent engineering graduates and other populations of engineers that might be otherwise difficult to observe with traditional methods. We recommend further exploration of recent graduates’ experiences as well as those of other difficult-to-access, perhaps underexplored, populations of engineers.

AU  - Benjamin David Lutz
AU  - Marie C. Paretti
CY  - Tampa, Florida
DA  - 2019/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Development and Implementation of a Reflective Journaling Method for Qualitative Research
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