Using Automated Prompts for Student Reflection on Computer Security Concepts
Hui Chen, Agnieszka Ciborowska, Kostadin Damevski · 2019
Reflection is known to be an effective means to improve students' learning. In this paper, we aim to foster meaningful reflection via prompts in computer science courses with a significant practical, software development component. To this end we develop an instructional strategy and system that automatically delivers prompts to students based on their commits in a source code repository. The system allows for prompts that instigate reflection in students to be timely with respect to students' work, and delivered automatically, thus easily scaling up the strategy.