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?
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.