Computing Research Association report cites NSDL Science Literacy Maps as model...

The Computing Research Association (CRA) recently published a CRA-E White Paper: Creating Environments for Computational Researcher Education, addressing a concern for higher educators, employers, funding agencies, and policy makers: "...how best to educate students for a future as computationally-oriented researchers in all fields."  

The CRA Education Committee (CRA-E) approached the charge by identifying key issues facing faculty responsible for educating such researchers, and made recommendations that address the issues in practical ways, given the realities that higher education institutions face. Their recommendations fall generally in three areas, designed to impart core concept knowledge and skills mastery: 1) developing flexible curricular structures that can adapt to change; 2) providing a 'research-oriented' environment at the undergraduate level, and 3) supporting assimilation and adoption into practice of cognitive skills and core concepts over four years.  

In its Recommendation 2: Core/Foundation for All Computer Science Graduates, the NSDL Science Literacy Maps are cited (p. 28) as "...an excellent model for a tool that could help guide both students and organizations in learning about and using core computational cognitive skills, concepts, and techniques. We encourage research into methods for creating and exploring an integrated, interactive map of how the cognitive skills, concepts, and techniques interact with each other in a lean core."