Melissa, What you do for testing sounds great, I do that nearly every test. I would say a journal can be very beneficial for other areas, such as after a class, jotting a note about what worked or didn't, information to follow-up on for future classess, personal observations about students, their attention, personal preparation, etc. I like to think of it as CQI, or cconstant quality improvement. Reflection on comments made months or even years later are very instructive to reveal something about personal growth and improvement as an instructor. Barry Westling