The Ursinus Weekly, December 9, 1971

Gulf Oil Corporation awards scholarships to U.C. science scholars • Scrounge Lounge opens; Provides place for chat • Traditional banquet takes on a new look • Seven Ursinus seniors named to Who\u27s who • Memorial service: Dr. John Vorrath • Ecological concern group sponsors recycling project • Editorial: False alarm; Scrounge! • Focus: Stan Talley • Messiah sung tonight; Annual U.C. tradition • Faculty portrait: Mr. Walter Marsteller • Administration answers • Ursinus presents gift of $1,500 to Collegeville • Francis Davis speaks at Sigma Xi meeting • Slumming it • Critic\u27s choice: Thanksgiving, Marcus Welby M.D., Jamie Brockett and hayrides • Spotlight: Mr. Philip Harvey • Bears even record; Future looks good • Their work is never done • Letter to the editor • Soccer season closes: 4 wins, 7 losses, 3 ties • USGA notes • Outing Club braves cold • Ursinus Harriers place second in Middle Atlantic Conferencehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1114/thumbnail.jp

Perspectives on developing and assessing professional values in computing

This paper discusses how to ensure that students attain professional values important to the workplace by integrating them into computing curricula. It describes a survey of the attitudes of students, faculty and professionals in computing towards the teaching and assessment of such values. The results show that these groups share a set of professional values, though students are less convinced of their importance in the work environment. There is broad consensus on the specific behaviors and attitudes reflective of these values to be developed in the curriculum. The groups differed in their opinions of whether these attitudes and behaviors could be workably assessed

Should we assess our students? attitudes?

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.

Assessing students' practice of professional values

This paper challenges the traditional approach to assessment in computing courses that restricts it to the cognitive domain and does not seek to measure attitudes and values. It identifies the role of professional values in the computing curriculum and presents examples of assessment related to some important professional characteristics. It then explores how assessment in the affective domain can help to improve our students' acquisition of professional values and constructive alignment between learning outcomes and assessment tasks. Finally, it considers the ethical issues raised by the assessment of values