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Using reflective blogs for pedagogical feedback in CS1

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SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

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The use of weekly, reflective student blogs can be one method for collecting ongoing feedback about a CS1 course. Reflective blogs permit a continuous feedback loop that can be used for both formative and summative assessment of pedagogical innovations. This paper reports on a two-year qualitative study involving the use of reflective blogging in six sections of two CS1-style courses. Reflective blogs were used as a low stakes, non-intimidating vehicle whereby concerns, requests, and other course-related issues could be voiced by students. The resultant blog posts were used as an assessment and feedback mechanism for a parallel pedagogical transformation of the participating courses. This study demonstrates that reflective student blogs in CS1 can be a useful tool for instructional planning. However, faculty must be careful to avoid reactionary changes which move the course away from predefined learning outcomes.

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Stone JCruz L(2020)Integrative learning in CS1Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/3417639.341764235:8(44-54)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
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Summet V(2020)Reflective writing through primary sourcesJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/3381631.338164535:4(97-102)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3381631.3381645
Weiss SKlukowska JZhang JSherriff MHeckman SCutter PMonge A(2020)Student Blogs - Expression and ExposureProceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3328778.3372600(1322-1322)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2020
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