Establishing Evaluation Criteria for Assessing Novices‟ Ability in Applying Object-Oriented Concept Using Delphi Approach
Norazlina Binti Khamis · International Journal of Information and Education Technology · 2015
There are many approaches in assessing students' ability in object-oriented programming, but little research has been discussed concerning the evaluation of novices' ability in applying object-oriented fundamental concepts in their source code.The main purpose of this study is to construct and validate through expert consensus, a set of evaluation criteria for assessing novices' ability through evaluation of the application of object-oriented concepts in program source code.These evaluation criteria are derived based on the common fundamental object-oriented concepts based on Malaysian object-oriented programming syllabuses.A three-round Delphi approach has been chosen in establishing the consensus and participated by a number of OOP experts.Based on the Delphi study, sixteen evaluation criteria have been established for assessing novices' ability in applying fundamental object-oriented concepts.The proposed evaluation criteria were then validated by associating them with established related object-oriented design heuristics and object-oriented design principles.