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...... In regards to data collection/research methods, Langer employs two approaches, an evaluative review of the learning journals kept and submitted by students and an interview process of selected students that completed a specific course. With the first approach, Langer utilized researchers to read and evaluate all of the submitted learning journals for style, content and subject matter and then examine these journals with a critical eye, looking for common themes and learning concerns (2002, p. 342). With the second approach, Langer solicited student volunteers to be interviewed with the objective being to gain an understanding of student perceptions related to journal writing assignments and the overall effects of these journals on student learning and comprehension (2002, p. 342)

The results of Langers explorations into the effectiveness and benefits of learning journals is based on an analysis and two summaries of data collected from the individual journals and the interviews. Langer then compares the data to past and current literature related to the application of learning journals in higher educational environments, especially at the university level. One result is that in spite of being told how to record a journal in the context of an independent format, most students used

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