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Reflective Writing as Assessment

Particularly in the context of CSP, reflective writing is important because it's part of a high stakes assessment, the proposed AP exam. In ECS, assignments also have reflective components that are graded. How do you prepare students to do effective reflective writing that results in a grade or exam score? How do you evaluate such writing?

Teaching and Evaluating Reflection: A CS10K Community-Wide Event

Reflective writing figures prominently in both ECS and CSP and can be an important component project-based pedgagogy. How to teach and assess reflective writing is particularly important to CSP teachers because students will need to write reflections as part of their performance tasks for the proposed AP assessment. However, few computer science teachers have experience teaching evaluating reflection writing, or, in fact, writing and presenting more generally.

Event details

Date:

Friday, 13 December, 2013 - 15:30 - Monday, 16 December, 2013 - 23:59

Location:

http://bit.ly/cs10k_reflection

Reflection/Exit Ticket 3 Sentence Essays

Reflection/Exit Ticket in 3 Sentences

Three-sentence essays allow students to synthesize their learning and teachers to efficiently monitor student progress. In their three-sentence essays, students are asked to do the following:

Claim it—claim the big ideas
Cite it—cite the information for those ideas
Clarify it—explain how it all works together to present a message

Idea from Ms. Christy Reasons, a 12th grade ELA teacher in Shelby County, Tennessee.

Crowdsourced grading of CS homework

Good idea? How would something like this look different in ECS or CSP as opposed to a traditional course?

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519001/first-trial-of-crowdsourced-grading-for-computer-science-homework/

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