Amruth N. Kumar
Renée McCauley
Bonnie K. MacKellar
Mihaela Sabin
ABSTRACT
In Fall 2021, a preliminary study was conducted to gain insight into students' perceptions of the importance of professional dispositions to their computing courses and career. Students filled out a pre-survey, post-assignment reflection exercises, and a post-survey. We found that 1) students rated dispositions as being maximally important for the course and their career on the pre- and post-surveys; 2) students rated dispositions not relevant to the course lower than those that were relevant; and 3) students rated their application of dispositions in course assignments lower than they had rated the importance of the dispositions for success in the course in the pre-survey.
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Quantitative Results from a Study of Professional Dispositions
Recommendations
Managerial and Professional Skills and Dispositions from Professionals’ Interviews
SIGITE '22: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Information Technology EducationEmployability should be a primary objective for computing programs, as the majority of IT and other computing graduates go to work in industry upon graduation. Furthermore, students want to be prepared for a career, not just an entry-level job. However, ...
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