Assessing Students' Object-Oriented Programming Skills with Java: The "Department-Employee" Project

Java is arguably today's most popular and widely used object-oriented programming language. Learning Java is a daunting task for students, and teaching it is a challenging undertaking for instructors. To assess students' object-oriented programming skills with Java, we developed the "...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of computer information systems Jg. 60; H. 3; S. 274 - 286
Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Xihui, Crabtree, John D., Terwilliger, Mark G., Redman, Tyler T.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Stillwater Taylor & Francis 03.05.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Schlagworte:
Correlation analysis
Java
Object oriented programming
Object-oriented languages
Project specifications
Skills
Structured programming
Students
Teachers
ISSN:0887-4417, 2380-2057
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Zusammenfassung:Java is arguably today's most popular and widely used object-oriented programming language. Learning Java is a daunting task for students, and teaching it is a challenging undertaking for instructors. To assess students' object-oriented programming skills with Java, we developed the "Department-Employee" project. In this article, we review the history of object-oriented programming, provide an overview of object-oriented programming with Java, and present a summary of existing Java projects and their limitations. We also provide the project specifications as well as the course background, grading rubric, and score reports. Survey data are presented on students' backgrounds, as well as students' perceptions regarding the project. Results from the instructor score reports, correlation of the project score and the final course score, and student perceptions show that the "Department-Employee" project is effective in assessing students' object-oriented programming skills with Java.
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ISSN:0887-4417
2380-2057
DOI:10.1080/08874417.2018.1467243