A web-based assessment tool for various types of self-evaluation utilizing common BOK in ICT

Information and communication technology (ICT) is essential as infrastructure in the modern society. High level ICT professionals are strongly required. Universities, ICT industries and ICT qualification bodies are expected to collaborate to build a consistent system for education, training and evaluation to develop such high level ICT professionals. In this paper, we propose a web-based assessment tool named “cresie”. The tool maintains various types of standard requirement data such as those of college level computing curriculum, various ICT qualifications, and ICT task profiles. A student or an IT engineer can upload their self-evaluation data of achievement to cresie and compare the data with the requirement data. He (or she) can also compare the data with other cresie users. All of the evaluation and requirement data are described in terms of the common ICT body of knowledge (ICTBOK) which we have proposed in our previous paper. The system can also be used for curriculum assessment and requirement assessment for recruiting and evaluating IT professionals.