Measuring Curriculum Alignment across Topical Coverage, Competency, and Cognitive Depth: A Cross-Generational Framework Applied to CS2013 and CS2023

This archive contains the data, alignment maps, rater materials, and source code needed to audit and reproduce every figure and table in the manuscript. The study measures how completely an accredited BSc Computer Science program covers the ACM/IEEE/AAAI computing body of knowledge through three nested lenses: topical coverage, competency articulation, and cognitive depth, and it does so across two guideline generations: Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) and Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023). The pipeline pairs benchmarked semantic retrieval (candidate generation) with large language model confirmation under an explicit coverage rule and independent validation by two expert raters. Embedding models are run locally; this archive ships the resulting candidate rankings and confirmed maps, allowing the pooling, metrics, coverage, competency, and depth results to be regenerated without re-encoding.