Learner Reflection in Student Self-Assessment

Learner reflection has been found important and valuable, especially in cognitively intensive tasks, such as learning programming. This paper presents, K-Assess, a programming education system that facilitates student self-evaluation and promotes learner reflection. It is built on top of an existing conventional programming teaching system by adding a pragmatic knowledge layer. Our evaluations show that K-Assess provides students a number of benefits in being able to identify strengths and weaknesses and they appreciate the learning values of these. The teacher exercise-authoring evaluation indicates that entering a new K-Assess exercise can be done within a relatively short time, even for a first time user of the teacher interface and addition of the knowledge layer adds only modest complexity to the task of authoring teaching material in the system.