Use of the Triangular Fuzzy Numbers for Student Assessment
This work provides a more robust method for educators to assess and compare student skills using fuzzy numbers, though it is incremental as it builds on prior fuzzy assessment approaches.
The paper addresses the limitation of using Triangular Fuzzy Numbers (TFNs) for comparing student group performance by introducing a defuzzification method based on the Center of Gravity technique, and extends the approach to Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers (TpFNs) with practical examples.
In an earlier work we have used the Triangular Fuzzy Numbers (TFNs)as an assessment tool of student skills.This approach led to an approximate linguistic characterization of the students' overall performance, but it was not proved to be sufficient in all cases for comparing the performance of two different student groups, since tywo TFNs are not always comparable. In the present paper we complete the above fuzzy assessment approach by presenting a defuzzification method of TFNS based on the Center of Gravity (COG) technique, which enables the required comparison. In addition we extend our results by using the Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers (TpFNs) too, which are a generalization of the TFNs, for student assessment and we present suitable examples illustrating our new results in practice.