Evaluation of the Teaching Effect of Construction Engineering Cost Software Based on the Markov Chain

Author

Mo Lian-Guang

Author_Institution

Hunan City Univ., Yiyang, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

832

Lastpage

836

Abstract

The teaching effect of Calculation Software for Construction Engineering Cost is largely affected by students´ computer level and professional foundations due to the course feature. As a result, the evaluation of teaching effect can´t be determined by the average scores. Based on the basic theory of Markov chain, this paper carries out appraisal of the teaching effect of the Calculation Software for Construction Engineering Cost. This evaluation method is much more effective and plausible as it rules out students´ individual differences and the appraisal results are more fair and just compared with the results got by evaluating average performances.

Keywords

Markov processes; civil engineering; computer literacy; costing; educational courses; professional aspects; teaching; Markov chain; appraisal; calculation software; computer level; construction engineering cost software; course feature; professional foundations; teaching effect; Appraisal; Computers; Educational institutions; Markov processes; Software; Vectors; Markov chain; teaching effect; transition probability matrix;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent System Design and Engineering Application (ISDEA), 2012 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya, Hainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2120-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISdea.2012.678

Filename

6173335