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Publications and Presentations

Clear, A., Impagliazzo, J., Gal-Ezer, J., & Exter, M. (2023, October 19). Using Scalable Competency in Computing and Engineering Education. 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/fie23/FIE_2023_Program_V16_9fbe7d5554.pdf 

Duan, S., Exter, M., Tagare, D., & Sabin, M. (2022, September). Managerial and Professional Skills and Dispositions from Professionals’ Interviews. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (pp. 1-8). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3537674.3554751

Duan, S., Exter, M., Tagare, D., Sabin, M, Janakiraman, S. (2023). Essential Competencies for Computing Managers: Skills and Dispositions. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11869-4

Exter, M., & Tagare, D. (2023, Oct, 15-19). Developing a Competency-Based Curriculum that Purposefully Integrates Cross-Disciplinary Skills and Disposition [Workshop]. Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Orlando, FL, United States.

Frezza, S., Exter, M., Sabin, M., & Pears, A. (2023, October). Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum: Finding Dispositional Expectations. In 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Janakiraman, S., Exter, M., Sabin, M., Duan, S., & Tagare, D. (2022, October 25). Exploring the competencies required by computing professionals in the workplace: A systematic literature review. Association for educational communication and technology. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Janakiraman, S., Duan, S., & Exter, M. (2023, April 14). Educational recommendations for improving computing education: Report from a systematic literature review. American Educational Research Association. Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Kotangale, A., Tagare, D., & Exter, M. (2023, October, 15-19). Computing Professionals’ Problem–solving Approaches Seen Through a Design Thinking Lens. Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Orlando, FL, United States.

Raj, R. K., Impagliazzo, J., Aly, S. G., Bowers, D. S., Connamacher, H., Kurkovsky, S., … & Marques Samary, M. (2022). Toward Competency-Based Professional Accreditation in Computing. In Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 1-35).

Tagare, D., Exter, M., & Ashby, I. (2023). The Many Hats – Accidental Roles on an Interdisciplinary Research and Implementation Project: A Collaborative Autoethnography. In: Hokanson, B., Schmidt, M., Exter, M.E., Tawfik, A.A., Earnshaw, Y. (eds) Formative Design in Learning. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41950-8_21

Tagare, D., Janakiraman, S., Exter, M., Duan, S., Sabin, M., & Tavakoli, J. (August, 2023). Dispositions that Computing Professionals Value in the Workplace: Systematic Literature Review and Interviews with Professionals. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, Chicago, IL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600118

Tagare, D., Tavakoli, J., Exter, M., Sabin, M., & Frezza, S. (In Press). Beyond the Cognitive: Educator Readiness for Fostering Dispositions. In Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference. College Station, Texas: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, October, 2023.

Other Related Work

ABET. (2022). ABET Criterial for Accrediting Computing Programs, 2022– 2023. ABET. https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accreditingcomputing-programs-2022-2023/

Akdur, D. (2021). Skills gaps in the industry: Opinions of embedded software practitioners. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 20(5), 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3463340

Almada, M. C., Bramlett, D., & Ramírez, H. (2018). Getting real about career readiness: A focus on cross-sector competencies. America Achieves Educator Networks. https://universityhigh.iusd.org/sites/universityhigh/files/documents/pdfs/wp-american_achieves-getting_real_about_career_readiness.pdf 

Bowers, D. S., Sabin, M., Raj, R. K., & Impagliazzo, J. (2022). Advancing Computing Education: Assessing CC2020 Dispositions. 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962670

CC2013 Task Force. (2013). Computing Curricula 2013: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Science

CC2020 Task Force. (2020). Computing Curricula 2020: Paradigms for Global Computing Education. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3467967

Clear, A., Clear, T., Impagliazzo, J., & Wang, P. (2020). From Knowledge-based to Competency-based Computing Education: Future Directions. 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9274288

Clear, A., Parrish, A., Wang, P., Cuadros-Vargas, S., Takada, H., Zhang, H., Araujo, J., Babb, B., & Bogoyavlenskaya, S. (2020). Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020): Paradigms for Global Computing Education. & IEEE Computer Society.

Finley, A. (2021). How College Contributes to Workforce Success: Employer Views on What Matters Most. Association of American Colleges and Universities. Retrieved from https://www.aacu.org/research/how-college-contributes-toworkforce-success

Hazzan, O., & Har-Shai, G. (2014). Teaching and learning computer science soft skills using soft skills: The students’ perspective. Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 567–572. https://doi.org/10.1145/2538862.2538885

Karimi, H., & Pina, A. (2021). Strategically Addressing the Soft Skills Gap Among STEM Undergraduates. Journal of Research in STEM Education, 7(1), 21–46. https://doi.org/10.51355/jstem.2021.99

Seow, P.-S., Pan, G., & Koh, G. (2019). Examining an experiential learning approach to prepare students for the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) work environment. The International Journal of Management Education, 17(1), 62–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2018.12.001

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