Abstract: It has been observed that most of the criteria considered for gauging effective teaching for the lecturers' evaluation process are naturally imprecise, vague, qualitative, and involve varied input datasets. Besides that, these criteria are usually determined by the universities themselves without considering the perspective of their students. Thus, this study proposes that a lecturer's evaluation should also be investigated based on the students' perspectives. The study was equipped with the appropriate linguistic weights to cope with the vagueness of the input datasets using the so-called Simple Hierarchy Analysis (SHA). A numerical example was employed to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method............
Keywords: Concentration, Decision-Making, Effective Teaching, Linguistic Weights, Simple Hierarchy Analysis (SHA)
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