Chemistry Education and Research

According to the recommendation of the EEES, one of the challenges of the university practice is the enhancing of the employability skills of their graduates. In this context, the active and meaningful learning and the refl ection ability play a key role. Going further with the methodology of the Weekly Refl ection Papers (WRP) implemented by our innovation group, we present in this communication the results obtained from the collaborative refl ection during this academic year 2017/18, both for our undergraduate as for international students. The application of the WRP tool has allowed us to observe that the answers given by the students are enough deep, diverse and attractive as to consider the possibility to pool and share them among all students and use this

discussion in a collaborative way as a richness source. We organize the students in groups of 4-5 members, depending on the total number of students in the class, to discuss, deepen and debate about the refl ective part of the previously individually written WRP and correspondingly corrected by the teachers. This improvement of our methodology requires a team work, which would achieve

the development of relation abilities as communication and engagement with the group, both skills initially not included in the WRP. In any case, the individual work is not excluded, the benefi ts of which are its strength and an essential part of the tool. Additionally, we present the refl ections of our international students in which they carry out a comparative analysis of the teaching-learning process in the University of Alcalá and in their respective universities.