6 papers
Measuring Curriculum-Labor Market Alignment at the Scale of a Program Portfolio
Sherzod Turaev, Saja Aldabet, Mary John +4
A college offering several overlapping computing degrees implicitly assumes that its programs are differentiated in line with how the labor market segments computing work and that,…
One-Shot Data Selection for Medical Image Classification via Graph Coverage
Zahiriddin Rustamov, Nadia Badawi, Rafat Damseh +1
Training medical image classifiers on entire datasets is wasteful when annotation budgets are limited: not all samples contribute equally, yet acquiring expert labels is expensive.…
Measuring Curriculum Alignment across Topical Coverage, Competency, and Cognitive Depth: A Longitudinal Framework Applied to CS2013 and CS2023
Sherzod Turaev, Mary John, Saja Aldabet +3
Undergraduate computer science is governed by international curricular guidelines revised about once a decade, yet programs lack a reliable way to measure how completely they cover…
An NLP-Driven Framework for Curriculum-Labor Market Alignment: Schema-Constrained LLM Extraction, ESCO-Anchored Semantic Matching, and Multi-Dimensional Gap Quantification
Sherzod Turaev, Mary John, Mamoun Awad +2
Schema-constrained information extraction from diverse educational and labor-market corpora remains an open challenge in natural language processing because existing pipelines rely…
The Nonverbal Syntax Framework: An Evidence-Based Tiered System for Inferring Learner States from Observable Behavioral Cues
Sherzod Turaev, Mary John, Jaloliddin Rustamov +4
Understanding learners' cognitive and affective states underpins adaptive educational systems and effective teaching. Although research links nonverbal cues to internal states, no…
Abnormal Head Movements in Neurological Conditions: A Knowledge-Based Dataset with Application to Cervical Dystonia
Saja Al-Dabet, Sherzod Turaev, Nazar Zaki
Abnormal head movements (AHMs) manifest across a broad spectrum of neurological disorders; however, the absence of a multi-condition resource integrating kinematic measurements, cl…