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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?

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Reflective activities and prompts that work for high school computer science students

In the online panel discussion about reflection in December 2013, many community members expressed a desire to translate the great ideas presented in the guest experts videos into specific classroom activities that are appropriate to high school students. Gail Chapman talked about the role of journaling in ECS as one example of a practice already in place. The panelists shared other possibilities, such as using the "what? so what?
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Reflective Practice as an Element of Student Learning: Principles and Materials (Video)

Reflective Practice as an Essential Element of Student Learning: Principles and Materials from Darren Cambridge on Vimeo.

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On Reflection and Reflective Writing (Video)

Kathleen Blake Yancey on Reflection and Reflective Writing from Darren Cambridge on Vimeo.

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Strategies to Encourage and Support Reflection in ECS and CSP Courses (Video)

Strategies to Encourage and Support Reflection in ECS and CSP Courses from Darren Cambridge on Vimeo.

Dr. Helen L. Chen of Stanford University explores strategies for improving student learning in ECS and CPS courses via reflection.

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2 December, 2013 - 20:38

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.

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Friday, 13 December, 2013 - 15:30 - Monday, 16 December, 2013 - 23:59
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http://bit.ly/cs10k_reflection
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Resources to Accompany Chen Video on Reflection
Teaching and Assessing Reflection (Event Archive)

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:

  1. Claim it—claim the big ideas
  2. Cite it—cite the information for those ideas
  3. 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.

 

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