Source of Knowledge Dynamics—Transition from High School to University

Entropy

Maria-Cristina Iorgulescu¹  Robert Bumbac¹  Mihai Dinu¹  Shahrazad Hadad¹  Ramona Cantaragiu¹ 

[1] UNESCO Dept. for Business Administration, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Calea Grivitei 2-2A, 010731 Bucharest, Romania;

关键词: source of knowledge;    higher education;    knowledge management;    cognitive development in adolescence;    long life learning;    Markov chain;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e22090918

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper addresses the dynamics of education by using Markov chains, a powerful probabilistic model able to make predictions on how sources of knowledge either change or stabilize over adulthood. To this end, each student filled in a survey that rated, on a scale from 1 to 5, the utility of five different sources of knowledge. They completed this survey twice, once for their previous and once for their current education. The authors then fitted a Markov chain to these data—essentially, calculating transition probabilities from one ranking of sources of knowledge to another—and inferred the final maximum utility sources of knowledge via the stationary distribution. The overall conclusion is the following: even if the professor used to play a crucial role in early development, students have the tendency to become independent in their learning process, relying more on online materials and less on printed books and libraries.

【 授权许可】

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