This course has a Bloom Rating of 3.9

Authors:
Dave Oliver;Tony Dobele;Myles Greber;Tim Roberts
Affiliations:
Central Queensland University, Australia;Central Queensland University, Australia;Central Queensland University, Australia;Central Queensland University, Australia
Venue:
ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 30
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper analyses the cognitive difficulty of six courses that may be taken as credit towards an IT degree offered by a regional Australian University. The assessment requirements of these six courses are evaluated using Bloom's taxonomy and from this a difficulty metric, called here a Bloom Rating, is computed for each course. The analysis reveals that some quite lowly courses in terms of their ordering in the programme, such as first-year programming, are comparatively high in their cognitive demands, whereas some of the more advanced non-programming courses have relatively low levels of cognitive difficulty. An explanation for these trends is offered.