Toward Competency-Based Professional Accreditation in Computing

Rajendra K. Raj; John Impagliazzo; Sherif G. Aly; David S. Bowers; Harold Connamacher; Stan Kurkovsky; Bonnie MacKellar; Tom Prickett; Maira Marques Samary

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Toward Competency-Based Professional Accreditation in Computing

Rajendra K. Raj, John Impagliazzo, Sherif G. Aly, David S. Bowers, Harold Connamacher, Stan Kurkovsky, Bonnie MacKellar, Tom Prickett, Maira Marques Samary

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Abstract

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. With this long history,
these disciplines have focused on ensuring the competence of
their graduates, as modern society demands appropriate expertise
from doctors and engineers before letting them practice their profession.
In computing, however, professional accreditation started
in the last decades of the twentieth century only after computer
science, informatics, and information systems programs became
widespread. At the same time, although competency-based learning
has existed for centuries, its growth in computing is relatively
new, resulting from recent curricular reports such as Computing
Curricula 2020, which have defined competency comprising knowledge,
skills, and dispositions. In addition, demands are being placed
on university programs to ensure their graduates are ready for
entering and sustaining employment in the computing profession.
This work explores the role of accreditation in the formation
and development of professional competency in non-computing
disciplines worldwide, building on this understanding to see how
computing accreditation bodies could play a similar role in computing.
This work explores the role of accreditation in the formation
and development of professional competency in non-computing
disciplines worldwide, building on this understanding to see how
computing accreditation bodies could play a similar role in computing.
Its recommendations are to incorporate competencies in
all computing programs and future curricular guidelines; create competency-based models for computing programs; involve industry
in identifying workplace competencies, and ensure accreditation
bodies include competencies and their assessment in their standards.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE-WGR '22
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Editors	Brett A. Becker, Keith Quille, Mikko-Jussi Laakso, Erik Barendsen
Place of Publication	New York, US
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-35
Number of pages	35
ISBN (Print)	9798400700101
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3571785.3574121
Publication status	Published - 27 Dec 2022
Event	ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE). - University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland Duration: 8 Jul 2022 → 13 Jul 2022 Conference number: 27 https://iticse.acm.org/2022/

Conference

Conference	ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE).
Abbreviated title	ITiCSE 2020
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	8/07/22 → 13/07/22
Internet address	https://iticse.acm.org/2022/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

ITiCSE Working Group
professional accreditation
computing education
competency-based learning
computing pedagogies
computing competencies

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Teaching Programming Competencies: A Role for Craft Computing?
Crick, T., Davenport, J., Hayes, A. & Prickett, T., 25 Sept 2023, UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research. Astarte, T., Moller, F., Quille, K. & Russell, S. (eds.). New York, NY, United States: ACM, 1 p. 27
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Raj, R. K., Impagliazzo, J., Aly, S. G., Bowers, D. S., Connamacher, H., Kurkovsky, S., MacKellar, B., Prickett, T., & Samary, M. M. (2022). Toward Competency-Based Professional Accreditation in Computing. In B. A. Becker, K. Quille, M.-J. Laakso, & E. Barendsen (Eds.), ITiCSE-WGR '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 1-35). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571785.3574121

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Toward Competency-Based Professional Accreditation in Computing

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Embedding Dispositions in Peer Assessment for Software Teams: More than just a "Product'" Focus

Teaching Programming Competencies: A Role for Craft Computing?

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