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Student evaluations of teaching staff are compulsory in Italian universities. The Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research proposed a questionnaire with items based on the four-point Likert scale and a traditional item-by-item analysis. A fuzzy inferential system is proposed to analyze the data collected through this questionnaire, for items with a four/five-point Likert scale. Fuzzy evaluation was set up with the support of “fuzzyTECH” by INFORM.
This paper is a reduced version of a chapter in a report (in progress) prepared for the Local Research Project “Metodi e tecnologie per innovare e riorganizzare la didattica”, approved and financed in 2000 through reserved quota intended for use in oriented research at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
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Lalla, M., Facchinetti, G., Mastroleo, G. (2002). Evaluation of Teaching Activity through a Fuzzy System1 . In: Tagliaferri, R., Marinaro, M. (eds) Neural Nets WIRN Vietri-01. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0219-9_27
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