The Improvement Technique in Assessing Teaching Skills using Fuzzy Weighted Grading Method

Abstract

The assessment of education is the process of providing the decision on the performance and quality of student achievement. Many cases indicate that the educational assessment involves many criteria of uncertain value, and therefore fuzzy assessment studies have grown rapidly in recent years. In this paper, a method is proposed to improve the assessment of the basic teaching skills of prospective teachers in a Micro-teaching course by using a fuzzy grading system. This method is also based on group decision-making (GDM) because it involves several decision makers who give preferences in the assessment process and negotiate to determine the criteria and sub-criteria for the assessment. The result of the method is a fuzzy value which is represented by a letter grade for the Micro-teaching course and letter grade for each of the basic teaching skills. By using this method, students may have the same final grade, but their mastering of teaching skills is very different.