Fuzzy Evaluation of Examinees Through Multiple Choice Questions

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Fahmi, Ali^{; *} | Kahraman, Cengiz

Affiliations: Management Faculty, Istanbul Technical University, Macka 34367, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mails: fahmi@itu.edu.tr, kahramanc@itu.edu.tr

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author.

Abstract: Fuzzy sets can be used in many old-fashioned aspects of our lives in order to reach better performance and make fairer judgments. Evaluation through examination is typically conducted by educational centers, and multiple choice question (MCQ) exams are widely applied to score the examinees. Since scoring is potentially a difficult process to judge, we propose to evaluate examinees by fuzzy evaluation method. This method can overcome the main shortcoming of the classical MCQs, i.e. the random selection of the choices. The evaluation of the proposed fuzzy MCQ is more accurate and its ranking of examinees is fairer than classical MCQ.

Keywords: evaluation methodologies, multiple choice questions, fuzzy sets, fuzzy examination, fuzzy multiple choice questions

Journal: Informatica, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 609-628, 2017