Mika Ohtsuki

Requirement Analysis of Computing Curriculum Standard J07 and Japan Information Technology Engineers Examination Using ICT Common Body of Knowledge

Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) has announced the Computing Curriculum Standard J07 which is compatible with the Computing Curricula 2005 (CC2005) Series proposed in the United States. Both J07 and CC2005 are composed of five major domains, CS, CE, SE, IS and IT, each of which is developed by a different community so that the relationship among these domains is not clear. In this paper, we analyze each body of knowledge (BOK) of the domains and map them into the ICT common body of knowledge (ICTBOK) which we have proposed in our previous paper. We also analyze Japan Information Technology Engineers Examination (JITEE) whose syllabus is published for each of 12 examination categories provided by the Japanese government. We estimate the degree of importance and the requirement level in terms of the 155 ICTBOK areas for each J07 domain and JITEE examination category by utilizing the mapping. Moreover we estimate the similarity and the difference among them. As a result, the relationship among J07 domains and JITEE examination categories is clarified.

Relationship analysis among curriculum, qualification, BOK and task profile in ICT field

ICT is utilized at many aspects of the society and business. Educational institutions and industries are expected to collaborate to build a consistent ecosystem for education, human resource development and fair evaluation of ICT professionals. In this paper, we analyze relationship among ICT curriculum, ICT qualification, ICT bodies of knowledge and various ICT task profiles. Since they are the major components to develop high level ICT professionals, they should be consistently integrated into the ecosystem. Our relationship analysis will be the first step to promote the mutual understanding of the stakeholders and to develop such a large social system. The analysis is carried out utilizing ICTBOK which we have proposed in our previous paper and i-Competency Dictionary (iCD) which the Japanese government proposed in 2014. We clarified the importance as well as the knowledge and skill level requirements of various activities in terms of ICTBOK domain and area.

A web-based assessment tool for various types of self-evaluation utilizing common BOK in ICT

Information and communication technology (ICT) is essential as infrastructure in the modern society. High level ICT professionals are strongly required. Universities, ICT industries and ICT qualification bodies are expected to collaborate to build a consistent system for education, training and evaluation to develop such high level ICT professionals. In this paper, we propose a web-based assessment tool named “cresie”. The tool maintains various types of standard requirement data such as those of college level computing curriculum, various ICT qualifications, and ICT task profiles. A student or an IT engineer can upload their self-evaluation data of achievement to cresie and compare the data with the requirement data. He (or she) can also compare the data with other cresie users. All of the evaluation and requirement data are described in terms of the common ICT body of knowledge (ICTBOK) which we have proposed in our previous paper. The system can also be used for curriculum assessment and requirement assessment for recruiting and evaluating IT professionals.

A Relationship Analysis Tool among J07, JITEE and Job Type Utilizing i-Competency Dictionary

Japanese government developed the i-Competency Dictionary (iCD) to define number of abilities such as knowledge, skill and task in order to clarify relationship among various activities in IT domain. Icd contains (1) required abilities for various job types of IT professionals, (2) requirement of Japan IT Engineer Examination (JITEE) and (3) requirement of various BOKs such as J07 for college level IT education. However the abilities of iCD are not mutually exclusive so that systematic comparison is impossible. In this paper, we develop a tool to analyze relationship among various activities explained above. In order to achieve this goal, we define a mapping between the knowledge of iCD and the ICTBOK which we have proposed in our previous work. Quantitative analysis and comparison then becomes possible in order to clarify the relationship through the mapping which follows the MECE principle.

A personal data control mechanism for digital society

Huge amount of digital information is collected and utilized in the digital society through Internet shopping, IC card, IC tag, etc. It is also used for customer relationship management (CRM). However consumers usually do not know what kind of personal data is collected and circulated among corporations. Furthermore they are not allowed to control the collection and circulation of such information to the corporations they do not trust. In this paper, we propose a personal data control mechanism in order to overcome such limitations and to develop better relationship between consumers and corporations.