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The IIT MST in computer science program

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 8, Issue 1

Pages 35 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/952989.803445

Published: 01 February 1976 Publication History

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The MST program at Illinois Institute of Technology evolved as a result of Computer Science emerging as a separate discipline at the secondary school level. The State of Illinois and the Chicago Board of Education have both been investigating certification for Computer Science teachers, but at present only two states, Wisconsin and Minnesota, have certification programs for teachers of Computer Science. In the not too far distant future there will be certification programs in many states and the IIT MST program in Computer Science is designed to meet those requirements.

It is important to realize before discussing the program itself that the MST program is not designed to teach people how to teach. Before entering the program, a teacher must have at least three years of superior teaching experience as well as recommendations from his principal attesting to his quality as a teacher. Of the 32 semester hours required for the MST degree, a maximum of 12 semester hours are in Computer Pedagogy, with the norm being nine. In addition, students in the program study on a part-time basis to encourage use of the principles studied at IIT in their own classrooms.

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R. Dewar, R. Hochsprung, and W. Worley, "The IITRAN Programming Language". Communications of the ACM, 12, 10:569-575, 1969.

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D. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1973.

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D. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1968.

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The IIT MST in computer science program
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
    2. Computing profession
      1. Testing, certification and licensing

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 8, Issue 1

Proceedings of the SIGCSE-SIGCUE joint symposium on Computer science education

February 1976

399 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/952989

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SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
February 1976
403 pages
ISBN:9781450374125
DOI:10.1145/800107
Editors:
Ron Colman,
Paul Lorton

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