ITPEC IP October 2018 Question 54
In a system development project, as a measure for improving the productivity of program creation, a training to improve skills for using development tools is planned for new members. Which of the following is the most appropriate indicator to evaluate the effect of this measure?
Explanation
The amount of programming created in one day by each member — the training aims at productivity, so its effect is measured as productivity.
The measure is meant to raise how much program each member creates per unit of time. Comparing that output per member per day (for example, lines of code or function points per person-day) before and after the training shows whether the training worked. It is an outcome indicator; the other options only count the training itself.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) — the number of participants shows how many attended, not whether anyone became more productive
- •(b) — the number of sessions measures how much training was delivered, an input
- •(d) — participation time is the effort spent on training, a cost of the measure rather than its effect
Key rule: Judge a measure by an outcome indicator tied to its purpose; attendance, sessions and hours count the effort put in, not the result.
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