Evaluating Information Course in Elementary Education by Fuzzy TOPSIS

Abstract:

Education in elementary school belongs to holistic education for students. In the education courses, information course being a technology is applied in the rest courses to explore related knowledge automatically for students because they can capture these concerning knowledge of the rest courses through information technology such as Internet or search engine. On the other hand, Internet is full of numerous immoral contents and websites, and immoral things easily mislead students that perform incorrect behaviors. Thus evaluating information course in elementary education will be important and essential. In this paper, we evaluate information course with several feasible alternatives in elementary education by fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (FMCDM) called fuzzy TOPSIS. By fuzzy TOPSIS, an optimal teaching alternative of information course is selected form feasible alternatives.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 584-586)
• Pages: 2757-2761
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.584-586.2757
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Yu Jie Wang, Tzeu Chen Han, Chen Lin Fang, Chien Chang Chou
• Keywords: Elementary Education, Evaluating, Fuzzy TOPSIS, Holistic Education, Information Course

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