Abstract
Today, educational institutions follow modern technology and use technological products such as smart board and tablet computer widely as education tools owing to the rapidly developing technology. The lessons supported by these technologies, make learning more effective by influencing student motivation positively. In that scope, the discussed developing technology and its innovative tools will help to improve the quality of education in the long term and contribute to the development of the different skills of the students. In this study, tablet computer selection problem of a high school located in Denizli, Turkey will be analyzed deeply. That determined high school decided to use tablet computers in the lessons as an education tool and the school management aimed to select the most suitable tablet computer to give their students. In this context, tablet computer alternatives have been assessed by an integrated approach based on the combined use of two MCDM (Multi Criteria Decision Making) methods; AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and OCRA (Operational Competitiveness RAting). The weights of the criteria were determined with AHP method, then OCRA method was used to rank tablet computer alternatives. The school management has been guided in the selection process of the most suitable tablet computer for their students. They found the search results satisfactory and decided to buy the selected tablet computer by the integrated MCDM method proposed in this study.
Highlights
In recent years, due to the developments in electronic and information technologies, technologic devices that have internet connection like tablet computers and smart interactive boards have been widely used in the education
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions. It was developed by Saaty (1980) and owing to its simplicity, it has been widely used as an efficient MCDM method for ranking alternatives and determining the criteria weights
Chakraborty et al (2013) solved facility location selection problem with grey relation analysis, MOORA (Multi Objective Optimization on the basis of Ratio Analysis), ELECTRE II (ELimination Et Choix Traduisant la REalité) and OCRA methods and obtained a final ranking with REGIME method to resolve disagreement in the ranks obtained by the four different MCDM methods
Summary
Due to the developments in electronic and information technologies, technologic devices that have internet connection like tablet computers and smart interactive boards have been widely used in the education. The difference of this study from others in the literature, AHP and OCRA methods are applied together to the tablet computer selection problem. The criteria weights are determined with AHP method and tablet alternatives are evaluated and the best one is determined by OCRA method. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions It was developed by Saaty (1980) and owing to its simplicity, it has been widely used as an efficient MCDM method for ranking alternatives and determining the criteria weights. AHP method is used while determining the weights of the criteria in tablet computer selection problem. Step 2: In the second step, decision makers make pairwise comparisons
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