0164-1212/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jss.2008.08.025 * Tel.: +1 604 8275654; fax: +1 604 822 5949. E-mail address: [email protected] To be successful, a software architect—or a software architecture team, collectively—must strike a delicate balance between an external focus—both outwards: Listening to customers, users, watching technology, developing a long-term vision, ...

In this paper we explore the object-oriented reflective world, performing an overview of the existing models and presenting a set of features suitable to evaluate the quality of each reflective model. The purpose of the paper is to determine the context applicability of each reflective model examined.

Since Smith seminal work, there have been numerous reflective language definition and implementation proposals. These proposals, initially restricted to functional languages, have been quickly extended to object-oriented languages. Unfortunately, reflective objectoriented language definitions remained mostly ad hoc. In this paper, we present a generic reification technique which enables the sel...

Little research has been conducted in investigating the implications of employing reflection in object-oriented (OO) systems on software qualities such as coupling and reuse. In this thesis, we investigate the reflective capabilities of Java as a representative of mainstream OO languages and propose a behavioural reflection model, which complements the language’s inextensible, introspective, st...

The purpose of this inquiry was to construct a model for facilitation of critical reflective practice, based on thorough analysis of the main concepts (critical thinking and reflection), related viewpoints, models and theories; and the data gathered and analyzed during, the naturalistic inquiry. The constructed model evolved from empirical observations, intuitive insights of the inquirer and fr...

BACKGROUND The fostering of reflective capacity within medical education helps develop critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills and enhances professionalism. Use of reflective narratives to augment reflective practice instruction is well documented. AIM At Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (Alpert Med), a narrative medicine curriculum innovation of students' reflective w...

There is a growing expectation from registering authorities and the public for health professionals to enter their respective professions armed with the necessary skills, attitudes and behaviours to be reflective practitioners. However, there is limited and inconsistent evidence of the effectiveness of pedagogic strategies used for teaching reflective practice in health practitioner courses. We...

Reflective learning is a mechanism to turn experience into learning. As a mechanism for self-directed learning, it has been found to be critical for success at work. This is true for individual employees, teams and whole organizations. However, most work on reflection can be found in educational contexts, and there is only little work regarding the connection of reflection on individual, group ...

The Reflective Tutorial Dialogue System (ReTuDiS) is a system for learner modelling historical text comprehension through reflective dialogue. The system infers learners’ cognitive profiles and constructs their learner models. Based on the learner model the system plans the appropriate --personalized for learners-reflective tutorial dialogue in order to promote their reflection, a fact which le...