ccsc-workshop-2026

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About the workshop

• A three-hour, in-person pre-conference workshop at the CCSC 2026 Conference
• At Springfield, MO
• On Friday, April 10, 2026

Learning objectives

• Learn to use Process Feedback’s online compiler and explore its key features
• Practice integrating Process Feedback into your CS1 classroom
• Analyze sample student reports, explore strategies for providing process feedback, and discuss best practices

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Session I

• 💬 Introductions
        “Your name, affiliation, and one challenge in teaching or grading”

• 🧠 Why process matters in the AI era
  • Reflection vs experience (John Dewey)
  • Challenges in coding education with AI
  • Process vs product focus
• ℹ What is Process Feedback? SLIDES
  • A pedagogical alternative to AI detection
  • Focus on reflection and making thinking visible
• 🖥️ Overview of tools
  • Online compiler information page
  • Coding and writing process integrations
• ✍️ Hands-on task: Coding + reflection
  • Solve the rainfall problem in the online compiler
  • Focus on your process (not correctness)
• 📊 Understanding coding process reports
  • What a report captures (runs, revisions, effort, timeline)
  • Why the process tells a different story than final code

• 💬 Components of a coding process report

• 📖 Typical and atypical coding patterns
  • Report #1
  • Report #2
  • Report #3
  • Report #4
• 🤸 Break

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Session II

• 📊 Implementation insights
  • Badri: UMSL experience (CS1/CS2 at scale)
  • Jie: SLU implementation
• 🔍 What we observed from real classrooms
  • Student reflection improved
  • Effort became visible
  • Early intervention became possible
  • Conversations shifted from result → process
• 🖥️ Hands-on: Course setup
  • Creating a Course
  • Creating an Assignment
• 📖 Instructor workflow
  • Teacher Guide
  • Practical integration strategies
• 📖 Reflection design
  • Reflection Assignments
  • How to prompt meaningful student reflection
• 🤖 AI integration with Process Feedback
  • Explain Code / Explain Error features
  • AI for real-time teacher feedback
  • AI as a reflection partner (not a shortcut)
• 🎯 Recommended strategies for CS1
  • Focus on process, not just correctness
  • Require reflection or presentations
  • Use reports for discussion, not policing
• 🚀 What’s on the horizon
  • Scaling process data
  • VS Code extension improvements
  • AI-assisted reflection features

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Related publications

• “Teaching coding in the age of AI: A hands-on tutorial on Process Feedback”
  📔 SIGCSETS, 2025 | 👤 Badri Adhikari and Jie Hou | Read Online

• “Coding process visualizations for improved learning and academic integrity in CS1”
  📔 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2024 | 👤 Badri Adhikari and Nirala Lamichhane | Read Online

• “Maximizing student engagement in coding education with explanatory AI”
  📔 IEEE FIE 2024 | 👤 Badri Adhikari, Sameep Dhakal, and Aadya Jha | Read Online

• “Engaging students to learn coding in the AI era with emphasis on the process”
  📔 Edukasiana: Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan, 2023 | 👤 Kate Arendes, Shea Kerkhoff, and Badri Adhikari | Read Online

• “Pensieve: Feedback on coding process for novices.”
  📔 Proceedings of the 50th acm technical symposium on computer science education, 2019 | 👤 Lisa Yan, Annie Hu, and Chris Piech | Read Online

• “Computational thinking”
  📔 Communications of the ACM, 2006 | 👤 Jeannette M. Wing | Read Online

• “Thinking beyond chatbots’ threat to education: Visualizations to elucidate the writing or coding process”
  📔 Education Sciences, 2023 | 👤 Badri Adhikari | Read Online

Facilitators

Dr. Badri Adhikari
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Dr. Jie Hou
Michigan State University