A Multi Criteria Approach For Statistical Software Selection in Education

KAYGISIZ ERTUĞ Z., GİRGİNER N.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.29, sa.2, ss.129-143, 2014 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 29 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Dergi Adı: HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.129-143
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Statistics education, statistical software, analytic hierarchy process, grey relation analysis, AHP, RELIABILITY, EIGENVECTOR, MANAGEMENT, PRIORITIES, PROMETHEE, MODEL
  • Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Statistical software is commonly used in the statistical lessons at universities. The developments and enhancement in statistical software in recent years has considerably eased statistics education in these institutions. The purpose of this study is to develop an evaluation model considering the quantitative and qualitative criteria for statistical software selection in an outsourcing user of these programs variety fields, especially in education. An integrated model is proposed by combining Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Grey Relation Analysis (GRA) into a single evaluation model. The model is illustrated with a case study of a team of five people including academics and software developers well versed in the use and development of such software to demonstrate the effectiveness of this integrated method. AHP has been applied to determining weight of criteria and GRA has been performed for determining the most appropriate statistical software. The results indicate that when analysis characteristics are the main criteria with the highest priority, financial and vendor firm characteristics are the main criteria with the lowest priorities. Also according to GRA results, the most appropriate statistical software is SPSS and Statgraph is in last rank with a low level of significance.