Research Methodology
In this work, a rule-based approach is adopted in classifying the question items into their corresponding Bloom’s cognitive level. The test items are a collection of examination questions in Programming subjects obtained from the Faculty of Technology and Information Science, UKM. The training set consists of 70 examination questions and the test dataset comprises of 30 questions. Only written final examination question are taken for test items. All of questions were manually categorized by a group of subject matter expert in programming domain. The system will classify each of questions automatically to their corresponding verbs from the Taxonomy with the assistance of the developed rules. In order to determine the category of questions, this work excluded difficulty level of each question as a measuring factor.