Student preferences of teachers and course importance using the Analytic Hierarchy Process model
Authors: Gkika, Eleni 
Frangos, Christos 
Manolopoulos, Ioannis 
Fragkos, Constantinos 
Sotiropoulos, Ioannis 
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2014
Conference: World Congress on Engineering, 4 - 6 July 2012, London, U.K. 
Book: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2012 
Volume: 2
Keywords: Analytic hierarchy process, Consistency ratios, Student preferences, Teaching effectiveness, Operational research
Abstract: 
Continuous evaluation of instructors' effectiveness and courses' relevance constitute an important part of the educational Process. In this paper, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used for the Ranking of the following University Courses: Introduction to Computing, Business Statistics and Financial Mathematics. The data for using the AHP model are 482 Greek university students' answers to a questionnaire for the evaluation of the above three courses, with respect to the following three criteria: Teaching Effect of Professor, Effect of a good course book and Easiness for obtaining a pass grade at exams". After applying AHP, we found the weights corresponding to the importance of the courses. The final ranking was the following in descending order: First course: Introduction to Computing, Second course: Business Statistics, and Third course: Financial Mathematics. The Consistency Rations were calculated for all 7 pairwise comparison matrices (PCM) and were all less than 0.1, which is an important requirement for the consistency of the pairwise comparisons. An important finding is that for students, the Communication ability and friendly conduct of a Professor carries more weight that his research activity and that the homework given to students during the course carries more weight than knowledge accumulated from similar previous courses. Finally, students rate higher a book containing many examples presented with clarity than the effort which they make in obtaining the course book.
ISBN: 978-988-19253-5-0
ISSN: 2078-0958
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1922
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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