While there's plenty of existing material and resources to help you decide on the next techie to hire, I could find very little for assessing the skill of children/teenagers at programming. This is the only proposal that I've found, but it's been created by a private company.My question regards standards for general knowledge in programming, so there are no specific language requirements - it could be based on pseudo-code.What high-quality standards are out there?
Assessing programming skills of students under 18 years
assessments
There are four places I would suggest looking if your concern is the K-12 environment:ISTE Standards (Note: there are standards here for multiple audiences, including students, teachers, and computer science educators)CSTA StandardsAP CS Principles Course Description (Revised for 2017-18)AP CS A Course DescriptionThese would probably be the best places to start. I suggest working your way from the top down since the standards as listed progress in what I see as an increasing order of complexity/rigor.