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Should we assess our students' attitudes?

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Ursula Fuller,

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Koli Calling '07: Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88

Pages 187 - 190

Published: 15 November 2007 Publication History

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Professional skills and attitudes form an increasingly large part of the requirements of computer science graduates. Students are assessed on their knowledge and cognitive skills but not on the attitudes that will lead them to practice in the workplace what they have been taught in the classroom. This paper argues that it is necessary to assess attitudes as well as cognitive achievements and that this is feasible within existing curricula.

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Should we assess our students' attitudes?
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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Koli Calling '07: Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88

November 2007

231 pages

ISBN:9781920682699

Program Chair:
Raymond Lister
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Australian Computer Society, Inc.

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Published: 15 November 2007

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