An investigation of focus or intention of reflection, i.e., who or what the reflection was intended
for revealed a high percentage of students (61.6%) seeing reflection in their courses as intended
for learners (e.g., themselves or their peers). A consistent percentage of little under a quarter of
the student responses in both the second-year and senior students keyed into reflection as being
intended to impact the project, design, or other aspect of the given course in which the reflection
activity was being undertaken. Small percentages of students at both levels made reference to
reflection activities being intended to impact their overall lives as professional engineers or for
the purpose of informing the educator about the course itself. A higher percentage of second-year
students provided a response referencing life and/or the engineering profession, while seniors
displayed a higher percentage of responses regarding the course. None of the codes used to
analyze focus or intention of reflections displayed significant differences between the sample of
seniors and second-year students.