Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Laramie Potts, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Huiran Jin, New Jersey Institute of Technology

in a particular field [e.g., 19]. Similarly,students’ skills development in a particular field are outlined in the curriculum and assessedagainst specific learning objectives. There are general skills (often called transferable skills) aswell as domain-specific skills. An individual’s skills proficiency can be judged by the results oftasks performed. It can be judged on the continuum from low to high.Thinking, skill, and knowledge interact with each other to control students’ career or vocationaldevelopment. But literacy can also be thought of as having three interdependent dimensions:knowledge, capabilities, and ways of thinking and decision making [e.g., 40]. Literacy, then, isbest conceptualized as including three dimensions of literacy