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Bowers, David; Sabin, Mihaela and Raj, Rajendra K. (2023). A Practical Approach to Assessing IT Professional Skills. In: The 23rd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE ’23), 11-14 Oct 2023, Marietta, GA, USA, ACM.

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Bowers, David; Hayes, Alan; Prickett, Tom; Crick, Tom; Streater, Kevin and Sharp, Chris (2023). The Institute of Coding Accreditation Standard: Exploring the Use of a Professional Skills Framework to Address the UK Skills Gap. In: UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (Astarte, Troy; Moller, Faron; Quille, Keith and Russell, Sean eds.), ACM, article no. 10.

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Bowers, David S. and Petre, Marian (2023). Developing a Competence Assessment which References a Student Portfolio to a Professional Skills Framework. Interaction Design & Architecture(s)(57) pp. 97–114.

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Bowers, David S. and Sabin, Mihaela (2023). Demonstrating the use of a professional skills framework to support the assessment of dispositions in IT education. Education and Information Technologies (Early Access).

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Bowers, David S.; Sabin, Mihaela; Raj, Rajendra K. and Impagliazzo, John (2022). Advancing Computing Education: Assessing CC2020 Dispositions. In: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), IEEE.

Bowers, David and Sabin, Mihaela (2022). Using a Professional Skills Framework to Support the Assessment of Dispositions in IT Education. In: The 23rd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, ACM pp. 103–109.

Bowers, David S.; Sabin, Mihaela; Raj, Rajendra K. and Impagliazzo, John (2022). Computing Competencies: Mapping CC2020 Dispositions to SFIA Responsibility Characteristics. In: 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), IEEE.

Raj, Rajendra K.; Impagliazzo, John; Aly, Sherif G.; Bowers, David S.; Connamacher, Harold; Kurkovsky, Stan; MacKellar, Bonnie; Prickett, Tom; Samary, Maíra Marques and Stefanov, Krassen (2022). Professional Accreditation and Competency-Based Computing Education. In: ITiCSE '22: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2, ACM, pp. 564–565.

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Bowers, David S. (2022). Compass Errors in Mobile Augmented Reality Navigation Apps: Consequences and Implications. In: Intelligent Computing. SAI 2022 (Arai, K. ed.), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 508, Springer, Cham, pp. 121–142.

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Raj, Rajendra; Sabin, Mihaela; Impagliazzo, John; Bowers, David; Daniels, Mats; Hermans, Felienne; Kiesler, Natalie; Kumar, Amruth N.; MacKellar, Bonnie; McCauley, Renée; Nabi, Syed Waqar and Oudshoorn, Michael (2021). Professional Competencies in Computing Education. In: Proceedings of the 2021 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ACM pp. 133–161.

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Ward, Rupert; Philips, Oliver; Bowers, David; Crick, Tom; Davenport, James; Hanna, Paul; Hayes, Alan; Irons, Alastair and Prickett, Tom (2021). Towards a 21st Century Personalised Learning Skills Taxonomy. In: IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (Educon 2021), 21-23 Apr 2021, [Online] Vienna.

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Bowers, David (2021). The IoC Accreditation Standard – Statements of Alignment. The Open University & The Institute of Coding.

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Bowers, David and Sharp, Christopher (2021). The Institute of Coding Accreditation Standard. The Institute of Coding, UK.

Raj, Rajendra K.; Sabin, Mihaela; Impagliazzo, John; Bowers, David; Daniels, Mats; Hermans, Felienne; Kiesler, Natalie; Kumar, Amruth N.; MacKellar, Bonnie; McCauley, Renée; Nabi, Syed Waqar and Oudshoorn, Michael (2021). Toward Practical Computing Competencies. In: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 26 Jun 2021-1 Jul 2021, Virtual Event, pp. 603–604.

Bowers, David S. and Nelson, Matthew (2020). Gamification of Team Interaction in a distance learning environment. In: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020 (CEP 2020), ACM, New York, NY, USA, article no. 12.

Bowers, David (2019). Augmented Reality Smartphone Compasses: Opportunity or Oxymoron? In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2019 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct), 9-13 Sep 2019, London, ACM.

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Petre, Marian; van der Hoek, André and Bowers, David S. (2019). Software design as multiple contrasting dialogues. In: Psychology of Programming Interest Group 30th Annual Conference, 28-30 Aug 2019, Newcastle University.

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Bowers, David S. and Howson, Oliver (2019). Analysis of accreditation approaches in the Computing sector. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Bowers, David S (2019). Designing a better accreditation standard to promote graduates' employability. In: Advance HE STEM Conference 2019, 30-31 Jan 2019, Birmingham UK.

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Bowers, David (2019). Workshop: The IoC Accreditation Standard. In: Institute of Coding Conference 2019, 10-13 Mar 2019, Manchester.

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Bowers, David; Petre, Marian and Howson, Oli (2019). Aligning Competence Hierarchies with Bloom's Taxonomies: Changing the focus for computing education. In: Koli Calling '19 Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 21-24 Nov 2019, Koli, Finland, ACM Press.

Bowers, David and Morse, David (2018). Including IT service management in the Computing curriculum: a caricature approach. In: Computing Education Practice, 11-12 Jan 2018, University of Durham.

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Bowers, David (2018). "It's only a computing project – so there can’t be any ethical issues…". In: Computing Education Practice, 11-12 Jan 2018, University of Durham.

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Ireland, Christopher and Bowers, David (2015). Exposing the myth: object-relational impedance mismatch is a wicked problem. In: DBKDA 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, IARIA XPS Press pp. 21–26.

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Petre, Marian; Bowers, David; Baker, Thomas; Copcutt, Ed; Lawson, Adam; Martindale, Adam; Moses, Ben and Yan, Yige (2013). Intentacles: wearable interactive antennae to sense and express emotion. In: CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2861–2862.

Ireland, Christopher; Bowers, David; Newton, Michael and Waugh, Kevin (2011). Exploring the essence of an Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch: a novel technique based on equivalence in the context of a framework. In: DBKDA 2011, The Third International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, 23-28 Jan 2011, St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles, pp. 65–70.

Ireland, Christopher; Bowers, David; Newton, Mike and Waugh, Kevin (2010). Exploring the Use of Mixed Abstractions in SQL:1999 - A Framework-based Approach. In: The Second International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, 11-16 Apr 2010, Menuires, France.

Ireland, Christopher; Bowers, David; Newton, Mike and Waugh, Kevin (2009). A classification of object-relational impedance mismatch. In: First International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA), 1-6 Mar 2009, Cancun, Mexico.

Ireland, Christopher; Bowers, David; Newton, Mike and Waugh, Kevin (2009). Understanding object-relational mapping: A framework based approach. International Journal on Advances in Software, 2(2/3) pp. 202–216.

Day, Robert; Holland, Simon; Bowers, David and Dil, Anton (2004). Audio Navigation: Using Spatial Audio In Ubiquitous Interfaces. Technical Report 2004/16; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Day, Robert; Holland, Simon; Bowers, David and Dil, Anton (2004). Using Spatial Audio in Minimal Attention Interfaces: Towards An Effective Audio GPS Navigation System. Technical Report 2004/08; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Bowers, David S. (2003). Detecting redundancy in conceptual models. In: ed. Advanced Conceptual Modeling Techniques: ER 2002 Workshops, ECDM, MobIMod, IWCMQ, and eCOMO, Tampere, Finland, October 7-11, 2002, Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2784 (2784). Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, pp. 275–287.

Bowers, D.S. (2001). Nurturing the acorn: helping a small software company onto the CMM ladder. In: Proceedings UKAIS (UK Academy for Information Systems) 2001, 18-20 Apr 2001, Portsmouth, UK.

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