Bridging Professionalism: Dispositions As Means For Relating Competency Across Disciplines

Work In Progress: this work-in-progress submission, we unpack the learning goals related to competency development in two disparate professional disciplines: Software Engineering and Occupational Therapy. Using competency modeling as a springboard, this research analyzes dispositions as a means of comparing and contrasting the competency goals for different majors. Leveraging recent research in competency modeling, professional competency, is structurally composed of Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions performed in a particular context. While knowledge, skills and context can vary significantly across disciplines, this paper explores how dispositions vary between two significantly different professional settings: Software Engineering (SE) and Occupational Therapy (OT).