Preparing Educational Standards in the Field of Object-Oriented Modelling

In Germany the results of the international PISA study disclosed a demand for an increase in the quality and an improvement in the comparability of educational results. In the subjects German, maths and first language (i.e. English) this demand already resulted in the development and publication of first educational standards. With the aim to prepare educational standards for the Informatics field of object-oriented-modelling (OOM) at first characteristics of such standards were analysed. It was justified that learning subjects from the OOM field fulfil current learning objectives of Informatics education. To prepare a competence level model for OOM, an important component of educational standards, a method was presented for selecting, abstracting, analysing and structuring exercises, which has effectively been applied to more than 320 exercises and also successfully been tested in Informatics education. Especially by the structuring step of exercises according to their dimensions Informatics core, subject and exercise type, a good basis for the justification of a competence level model is given. The results of this analysis were finally combined with the PISA competence level for maths to an outline of a corresponding model for OOM.