4 papers
The Plan Language of a Curriculum: A Formal Model and the Complexity of Degree Planning
Sherzod Turaev, Mary John, Mamoun Awad
We model an academic curriculum as a generator of a language of feasible study plans: prerequisites are monotone Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form, degree requirements ar…
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,…
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…