Paper Info
Title
Teaching simulation and simulation for teaching: assessment of student preparation for discrete event simulation courses
Abstract
Over the past years, there has been a growth in simulation courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A discrete event simulation course, as with any non-basic course, has some prerequisites that must be satisfied by students before attending classes. Statistics, computer programming and modeling are the most important, together with knowledge on the specific field being simulated (manufacturing, logistics, etcetera). Are students sufficiently prepared to follow a course on simulation? This work is related to the construction, application and analysis of an assessment instrument to evaluate student prerequisite knowledge for a discrete event simulation course. The proposed questionnaire was given to the 5th year engineering students at the beginning of our first year (72 hours) discrete event simulation introductory course at Mauá School of Engineering. The results obtained show the importance of making an assessment evaluation in order to improve the quality of simulation learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1145/564124.564364
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
discrete event simulation,discrete event simulation course,student prerequisite knowledge,assessment evaluation,simulation learning,non-basic course,student preparation,introductory course,simulation course,past year,assessment instrument,teaching simulation
Computer science,Simulation,Mathematics education,Computer programming,Discrete event simulation,Instructional simulation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7309-X
3
0.48
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonardo Chwif1448.40
Marcos Ribeiro Pereira Barretto2838.35
Ray J. Paul314417.39