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Expectations of Competency: The Mismatch between Employers' and Graduates' Views of End-User Computing Skills Requirements in the Workplace
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Gibbs, Shirley; Steel, Gary; Kuiper, Alison – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The use of computers has become part of everyday life. The high prevalence of computer use appears to lead employers to assume that university graduates will have the good computing skills necessary in many graduate level jobs. This study investigates how well the expectations of employers match the perceptions of near-graduate students about the…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Business Administration Education, Expectation, Job Skills
Studying Computer Science in a Multidisciplinary Degree Programme: Freshman Students' Orientation, Knowledge, and Background
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Kautz, Karlheinz; Kofoed, Uffe – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2004
Teachers at universities are facing an increasing disparity in students' prior IT knowledge and, at the same time, experience a growing disengagement of the students with regard to involvement in study activities. As computer science teachers in a joint programme in computer science and business administration, we made a number of similar…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Student Attitudes, Business Administration, Prior Learning