Software and IT infrastructure keeps changing the way we live and work, but not necessarily
for the better for all of us. Considering the implications of software on our society, and the …

Dispositions, along with skills and knowledge, form the three components of competency-
based education. Moreover, studies have shown dispositions to be necessary for a …

Students' challenges in introductory programming courses have long been subject to
research. In fact, learners are faced with cognitively complex tasks, such as modeling and …

Vignettes are short stories along with a set of questions that engage the reader to comment
on the story. Vignettes have been used in professional academic programs (eg, teacher …

The Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) report, issued by the ACM and IEEE Computer
Society, identified knowledge, skills, and dispositions as the three main components of …

This work represents a work-in-progress study on how dispositions are essential to the
workplace. Recent computing curricular reports have heralded the importance of moving …

Program accreditation in medical or religious professions has existed since the 1800s while
accreditation of business and engineering programs started in the early twentieth century …

This book covers a qualitative study on the programming competencies of novice learners in
higher education. To be precise, the book investigates the expected programming …

Educational Technology Quarterly (ETQ, Educ. Technol. Q) is a Diamond Open Access
peerreviewed journal focused on the ways in which digital technology can enhance …

The concept of competency is one of the core elements in this book. For this reason, it is
crucial to illustrate several approaches to the definition of competency. Those include the …