Workshop on Self-Regulated Learning in Educational Technologies (SRL@ET): Supporting, Modeling, Evaluating, and Fostering Metacognition with Computer-Based Learning Environments

Abstract

The main set of reasoning tools needed for the Professional Ethics domain is metacognitive. Students need to be able not only to analyze case studies, commonly used in this kind of domain, but also be able to analyze their own analysis. We have developed a tool called Umka to implicitly support students in evaluating and regulating their ethical analysis. An experiment was carried out where computer science students studying professional ethics used Umka. Results of this experiment are shown, and further steps are discussed on how to make Umka’s metacognitive support more explicit.