Implementation of The Fuzzy Dematel Method in Higher Education Course Selection: The Case of Eskişehir Vocational School

Year 2017, Volume: 21 Issue: 4, 1597 - 1614, 20.12.2017

Serpil Altınırmak Mustafa Ergün , Çağlar Karamaşa

Abstract

Elective
courses play an essential role in the process of improving students’ skills and
also help with identifying their interests, talents and potentials for a given
field or vocation. Therefore the relationships between course selection criteria
have been considered crucial in the decision making process. In this study, the
aim has been to determine what constitutes the course selection criteria for
students in Eskişehir Vocatonal School. Given this aim, a survey was designed
and applied to 50 student respondents from different departments (marketing,
hospitality management, secretary and office management, foreign trade,
culinary arts, real estate and property management) current at Eskişehir
Vocational School. Criteria, which are defined within the literature review
undertaken, are ranked according to importance level via the fuzzy DEMATEL (The
Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method. In addition, a general
review of criteria has also been considered but as part of a cause and effect
process, by using a causal diagram.

Keywords

Course Selection, Vocational School, Fuzzy Logic

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