Evaluation of Project´s Progresses

For the tutor it isn´t easy to judge the success or failure of a project. In the easiest case he can carry out the evaluation of the plays exclusively on account of the achieved objectives. No learning success appears for the students, because they don´t get to know which mistakes were committed by them.

To be able to indicate the mistakes of the players in the project management, the single project courses (plays) will be exactly analysed by the tutor.

That´s the only way, that players can be confronted with their own mistakes and lern from them!

Evaluation Component

The evaluation component (part of the explanation component) analyzes game histories using various evaluation criteria. Through the automatic analysis of hand histories, the tutor is greatly relieved. The AMEISE-system is also suitable for self-study, as players start the evaluation by the evaluation component itself and can already be carried out during the game through interim analyzes.

The evaluation results will be presented to the player in the form of diagrams and explanatory texts. In the explanatory texts, the player is drawn to wrong decisions and their impact on the project. The player also gets tips that will help him to avoid these mistakes in the conduct of the next project.

Evaluations can also be started during the game. For example, the player may call at the end of the specification phase, "residual errors in the specification" and - depending on the outcome - again conduct a review or start the next phase.

Most of the evaluations serve the analysis of the whole play course. Therefore starting these evaluations often doesn´t make sense during the game.

Common Mistakes

The analysis of AMEISE plays has shown that the following mistakes are committed very often:

• '"Objectives do not become fulfilled"
  • The students often have a big problem to fulfill all objectives of the project.
• '"Employee's extent of utilisation"
  • With most players a big problem consists in occupying the employees constantly. Often it seems that employees don´t follow an activity for a longer period.
• '"Examination and correction measures are absent or become only partially carried out"
  • Many players forget about the necessary examinations and corrections of the single phases. Documents or code are thereby faulty what leads again to bad results.