International Journal of
Information and Education Technology

Abstract

IT industry burgeoning, more and more enterprises and universities pay attention to the comprehensive ability of computer science majors. However, the existing assessment method giving priority to test scores, could not greatly demonstrate computer science majors’ capability and their development approaches, with drawbacks of serious one-sidedness, limitation and low perceptual intuition. Correspondingly, it’s difficult to teach students according to their aptitude or interests. Moreover, the current research works show that this research field still requires theoretical foundations, appropriate models, effective tools, in-depth experimentations and practical implementations. In order to solve this problem, the paper proposes an index system of students' for evaluating computer science majors’ ability, designs and implements the relevant visualization software of capability assessment based on dynamic radar charts and jitterplot, and then illustrates the application of this visual software through case studies. Based on the visualization tool, it has achieved good results in practical teaching.