Evaluating assessment with competency mapping

McNamara, R.

How do we know what students get out of an introductory computer programming course? Computer programming skills are notoriously difficult to assess fairly and economically. This paper presents a method - competency mapping - which extracts a better and more detailed picture of what students actually learn, without requiring them to sit extra assessment activities. Competency mapping was applied to the set of marks from an introductory course in computer programming.