Mihaela Sabin

Computing-education researcher, University of New Hampshire; lead author of self-directed-disposition-study (ITiCSE 2025), the six-institution qualitative study of what computing students understand self-direction to be. The paper is this spoke’s first T1 and its first source written by a researcher rather than by a maintainer with a product adjacent.

Her co-authors — Amruth N. Kumar, Bonnie K. MacKellar, Renée McCauley, Tammy VanDeGrift and Stephanos Matsumoto — are recorded as plain mentions on the source page; the study’s own framing places it in the ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2020 line, which names self-directed as a disposition with elements of self-motivation, determination and independence. Thin node — evidence here is the one paper.