Conference Paper

Identifying and Evaluating Information Technology Baccalaureate Degree Programs per IT2017

Barry Lunt, Brady Redfearn, Elizabeth Mitchell, Samuel Tenney, Cayman Williams

SIGITE 2019 7 citations IT EducationIT2017Curriculum AssessmentAccreditation

Abstract

SIGITE 2012 included a report of Information Technology (IT) bachelor's degree programs in the USA as compared to the IT2008 Model Curriculum. New IT curriculum guidelines were released by the ACM in late 2017. This paper describes the process for identifying and evaluating IT bachelor's programs in the United States per the new 2017 IT curriculum guidelines.

Due to widespread variation in the names of academic degree programs, one cannot simply count those named "Information Technology." This research, funded by SIGITE, first defined a framework for evaluating the compliance of an IT program to the standard of the IT2017 document. This framework was then applied throughout this research. We first compiled a list of prospective IT programs to research. Each institution on the list was then researched by looking at their webpage in search of a list of computing majors listed at that institution. If, at a glance, these program's required courses looked similar to those required in an IT program, the program was evaluated and given a numerical compliance factor. This compliance factor was calculated using the assessment form that is included in this document. The results of this analysis are presented.

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© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. The full text is not hosted here. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education, https://doi.org/10.1145/3349266.3351413.

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Barry Lunt, Brady Redfearn, Elizabeth Mitchell, Samuel Tenney, Cayman Williams. (2019). Identifying and Evaluating Information Technology Baccalaureate Degree Programs per IT2017. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education, Tacoma, WA, USA, pp. 5-9. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3349266.3351413

BibTeX 
@inproceedings{lunt2019identifying,
  author    = {Lunt, Barry and Redfearn, Brady and Mitchell, Elizabeth
               and Tenney, Samuel and Williams, Cayman},
  title     = {Identifying and Evaluating Information Technology
               Baccalaureate Degree Programs per {IT2017}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIG Conference on
               Information Technology Education},
  series    = {SIGITE '19},
  address   = {Tacoma, WA, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  year      = {2019},
  pages     = {5--9},
  doi       = {10.1145/3349266.3351413}
}

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