Study And Development Of Evaluation Of Teaching Effectiveness Based On Evidential Reasoning Theory On The Net

How to improve teaching effectiveness has been paid more and more attention by higher education operators. Students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness can help leaderships of school and teaching managers knowing teaching informations roundly and exactly, strengthening teaching administration and improving decision-making. It also can help teachers getting more feedbacks from students, and can let teachers adjust teaching matters and mend teaching methods to improve teaching effectiveness.The execution of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness is composed of several factors, such as the method used in students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness, the guide line design of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness, how to execute the evaluations, how to deal with the evaluation informations, and how to use the evaluation results, etc. It needs to analyze every process of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness logically and find out the factors that impact the evaluation results. It is also necessary to make reasonable measures to ensure that the evaluation results can discover problems of teaching activities impersonally, accurately and really.Evidential reasoning approach is used to solve uncertain problems. It usually forms belief functions and plausibility functions that their values are between zero and one according to evidences. The value between belief function and plausibility function denote the degree of belief of a hypothesis or a problem according to given evidences. We can draw a judgement of a problem by using Dempster rule to combine different evidences.Recent years, more and more higher education colleges regard students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness as one of the important measures to improve teaching quality. They has been mending every process of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness and selecting logical methods that deal with evaluation information to discover problems of teaching activities well and truly. This thesis discusses how to combine evidential reasoning approach with students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness. Then a system of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness on the net is developed according to it.