DIEP Strategy
The four steps in this approach are to describe an insight new understanding), to interpret and evaluate it, and to plan how it might transfer to future practice or learning. First, select an experience or insight to reflect on Then:
Analyse your learning and deepening understanding
Evaluate your gains in understanding and development, while acknowledging any complexities
Integrate the concepts taught in courses (including references to the literature, where relevant)
Focus on your developing confidence and cognition, and verbalise your feelings about your learning
Make connections with theories in your course and/or program, and other relevant ideas/experiences
Demonstrate transfer of learning to your study, practice, and to your future professional life.
D – Describe objectively what you learned Choose a new insight it might be something that you understand now (that you didn’t before). Focus on what you learned and give the details of what happened.
I – Interpret the Insight (In one or more paragraphs) Explain the meaning of the new insight your understanding/ hypotheses/ conclusions/ connections with other leaming/ possible complexities/ questions unanswered/ etc. You can refer to ideas and theory in your course material, in research literature and from other sources to support your explanation of the insight’s
E – Evaluate what you have learned (in one or more paragraphs) Make judgments about the value of l’That you have learned connected to observations you have made. Refer to theory from your courses and the literature here too, to show how your insight is connected to discipline knowledge and now your thinking has changed for the better.
P – Plan how this learning will be applied in practice Comment on relevance to your course, program, future profession, life._ Answer the question: “How might this learning apply in your future?
