A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation

Xueyang Zhang; Jianqiang Wang; Hongyu Zhang; Junhua Hu

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Xueyang Zhang ¹, Jianqiang Wang ², Hongyu Zhang ³ ^*, Junhua Hu ²

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¹ Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, China² Central South University, Changsha, China³ School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, China^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Focusing on multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) regarding classroom teaching quality evaluation, this article aims to devise a novel evaluation framework based on heterogeneous linguistic information. In this framework, a four-level evaluation process of classroom teaching quality is established. Then, the weights of the sub-attributes are estimated objectively by integrating a newly proposed score function of interval linguistic 2-tuples and optimization models which consider the realistic situation that alternatives are not equally weighted. Subsequently, the exploitation process is implemented by two branches: taking the possibility measurement to rank teachers with respect to different attributes and extending the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to assess the overall performance of teachers. Finally, a simulated case is furnished to illustrate how to apply the presented framework to realistic classroom teaching quality evaluation problems. Hopefully, this work would be beneficial to the improvement of classroom teaching quality.

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classroom teaching quality evaluation
MAGDM
heterogeneous linguistic information
optimization models
possibility measurement

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2017, 4929-4956

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Zhang, X., Wang, J., Zhang, H., & Hu, J. (2017). A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(8), 4929-4956. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Zhang X, Wang J, Zhang H, Hu J. A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(8):4929-56. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Zhang X, Wang J, Zhang H, Hu J. A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(8), 4929-4956. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Zhang, Xueyang, Jianqiang Wang, Hongyu Zhang, and Junhua Hu. "A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2017 13 no. 8 (2017): 4929-4956. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Zhang, X., Wang, J., Zhang, H., and Hu, J. (2017). A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(8), pp. 4929-4956. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a

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Zhang, Xueyang et al. "A Heterogeneous Linguistic MAGDM Framework to Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 13, no. 8, 2017, pp. 4929-4956. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.00966a