An Effective Approach of Evaluating Cognitive Weight and Equivalent Distribution of Programming Problems

Abstract

Equal distribution of programming problems among the students is so significant during the examination within limited times. But how could we determine that how student feels about whether a given program is either easy or difficult? So Complexity measurement according to their brain thinking capability is necessary. In this article, we have improved the approach of complexity measurement procedure that gives us more accurate value of cognitive weight which contract the constraints of existing measures. The idea of cognitive weight of any basic control structure is ethically based on the logical capacity of the human brain. As per our cognitive data gathering from various level of students, we have built up a new software tool using Java Standard Edition and MySQL for equivalent distribution of programming problems dependent on our developed algorithm. The problems is categorized according to three difficulty level (simple, medium, hard) for each level of students. This will help instructor allocate problems while maintaining an equivalent level of problems for students.