Design of Web-Based Model Decision Support System for Selecting Exemplary Students Using Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Method at SMAS Sultan Agung Puger

Abstract

The educational strategy adopted so far is general in nature, providing standard or average treatment to all students, so that it pays little attention to differences between students in their skills, interests and talents. With this kind of strategy, excellence will appear randomly and really depends on students' learning motivation and learning environment. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the advantages possessed by each student so that the potential possessed can be converted into superior achievements. In order to motivate students to continue to excel, Sultan Agung Private High School conducts activities to develop the potential of students through selecting exemplary students. A decision support system (SPK) to facilitate the selection of model students and utilize Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) as a decision-making method. The Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method is a method that can determine the weight of the value of each attribute, then can determine the ranking so that the best alternative can be selected from several alternatives. The criteria used to evaluate the selection of exemplary students at the Sultan Agung Private High School are the average grades of report cards, attitudes/morals, and absenteeism. These calculations will be implemented in the PHP programming language and MySql database.