An Approach for Automated Software Engineering Competence Measurement: Model and Tool

Nowadays, competence-based assessment is a term widely used in higher educational institutions. Many educational centres focus their efforts on the concretion of competences for the evaluation. For this purpose, in the European Union (EU) was defined the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF), which provides a reference of 40 competences applied to the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) using a common language of competences, skills and capability levels. On the other hand, the incorporation of Information Technologies (IT) such as Audience Response Systems (ARSs) in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) or other educational institutions has supposed a new way to teach. Unifying these two concepts (Competences and ARSs), this paper presents a novel approach for automated measurement of competences applied to the field of Software Engineering and shows a description about the conceptual model to develop this type of evaluations. Furthermore, we propose the integration of SIDRA (ARS tool) and SECEIP (Software Engineering Competence Evaluation Internet Portal). This portal will be endowed with a new means of assessing students, thanks to the use of wireless devices, such as, smartphones or tablets.