Further development of the Reflective Practice Questionnaire

Abstract

This paper provides an update of the reflective practice questionnaire (RPQ) based on factor analysis results from a sample of 501 university students. The original RPQ as published by Priddis and Rogers (2018) consisted of 40-items with 10 sub-scales. In this paper the RPQ is streamlined into a single construct 10-item reflective practice questionnaire (RPQ), and a 30-item extended version (RPQ-E) that includes additional sub-scales of confidence, uncertainty/stress, and work satisfaction. Both these updated forms of the RPQ are provided in this paper as appendices. Additionally, we had participants complete two general measures of general self-reflection, the Self-Reflection and Insight Scale, and the Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire. Only small positive associations were found between the RPQ and these measures of general self-reflection providing discriminant validity evidence for the RPQ. The RPQ was found to be sensitive to differences among industries, whereas the general measures of reflection were not. The reflective practice means from the updated RPQ were found to be higher for health and education industries where reflective practice is more commonplace, when compared to retail and food/accommodation industries.