An Introduction to the RoLI[TM]

The Reflections on Learning Inventory (RoLI) is an instrument designed to capture variation in students' engagement of learning--typically in a given disciplinary context or topic-specific 'episode'. Although the RoLI has been employed as a research instrument in a number of published studies on the modelling of student learning in higher education, there has been an important thrust in the development of the RoLI in terms of an instrument that can be used as a basis for developing the critical first stage of metalearning capacity in students; making students aware of their learning via the process of representing responses to the RoLI as a graphic personal learning 'profile'. Sections within this article include: Introduction; The Development of the RoLI; Internal Structure; The Domain of the RoLI; and Availability of the RoLI.