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Join us on Monday 6th of October to discuss Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs) with arm.com

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What do your students actually know? What can they actually do and what approaches can students develop to solve challenging problems? The KSA framework from arm.com aims to map out the knowledge, skills and abilities that students (and employees) require to succeed as technical professionals. Join us on Monday 6th October at 2pm GMT to discuss this framework its authors. From a recent blog post:

We explain how the Knowlege, Skills and Abilities (KSA) framework can help optimise learning, and describe some of its possible applications. Competency describes an expected level of performance that integrates Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs). Educational and training content is a core ingredient to build KSAs, enabling learners to move from one KSA state (with levels for example, introductory, medium, advanced, expert) to another. In a learning context, the former state defines the learning pre-requisites while the latter describes the learning outcomes. We call this journey a learning path.

 We’ll be joined by the authors of the framework, Rachel Horsman, Nick Sample and Khaled Benkrid from arm. All welcome, meeting URL is public at zoom.us/j/96465296256 (meeting ID 9646-5296-256) but the password is private and pinned in the slack channel which you can join by following the instructions at sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/join-us

References

  1. Nicholas Sample (2024) Arm KSA Framework: Theory and applications community.arm.com/education-hub/b/arm-education/posts/arm-ksa-framework-theory-and-applications

Cite this article using DOI:10.59350/sigcse.3050

SIGCSE journal club posts now have Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

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All of the posts here now have Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) thanks to a tool called Rogue Scholar. [1] What this means is that details of our meetings are more:

  • Findable — every blog post is searchable via rich metadata and full-text search.
  • Citeable — every blog post is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), to make them citable and trackable. Rogue Scholar shows citations to blog posts found by Crossref.
  • Interoperable — metadata are distributed via Crossref and ORCID, and downstream services using their metadata catalogs.
  • Reusable — the full-text of every blog post is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
  • Archiveable — blog posts are archived by Rogue Scholar, and semiannually by the Internet Archive Archive-It service.

Find them all listed at rogue-scholar.org/communities/sigcse – there is sometimes a short lag between publication here and DOI assignment by rogue scholar. You get DOI’s for your blog posts at rogue-scholar.org, thanks to Martin Fenner at Rogue Scholar for support.

Cite this post using DOI:10.59350/sigcse.3020

References

  1. Lena Stoll, Patrick Vale and Rosa Morais Clark (2025) Scholarly blogs and their place in the research nexus, crossref.org blog DOI:10.64000/552ec-b8g03