On Which Skills do Indian Universities Evaluate Software Engineering Students?
This work addresses the problem of aligning software engineering education with industry needs for educators and employers, but it is incremental as it applies existing frameworks to a specific context.
The paper analyzes the skills and knowledge evaluated in Software Engineering university exams by classifying exam questions using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy and ACM/IEEE curricula, aiming to help educators and employers improve training.
Universities conduct examinations to evaluate acquired skills and knowledge gained by students. An assessment of skills and knowledge levels evaluated during Software Engineering examinations is presented in this paper. The question items asked during examinations are analyzed from three dimensions that are cognitive levels, knowledge levels and knowledge areas. The Revised Bloom's Taxonomy is used to classify question items along the dimensions of cognitive levels and knowledge levels. Question items are also classified in various knowledge areas specified in ACM/IEEE's Computer Science Curricula. The analysis presented in this paper will be useful for software engineering educators to devise corrective interventions and employers of fresh graduates to design pre-induction training programs.