Application of the Plithogenic-TODIM Approach for Teaching  Quality Evaluation in Vocational Colleges under the Background of  New Era Education

Qiongyao Liu; Wenqiang Dai; Wei Wang; Yuemin Gao

Authors

Qiongyao Liu Basic Teaching Department, Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao 066100, Hebei, China
Wenqiang Dai Department of Architecture and Design, Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao 066100, Hebei, China
Wei Wang Art Department, Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao 066100, Hebei, China
Yuemin Gao Basic Teaching Department, Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao 066100, Hebei, China

Keywords:

Teaching quality Evaluation; Vocational Colleges; Uncertainty; TODIM Method; MCDM.

Abstract

The goal of vocational education reform is to improve quality, and one of its key tasks is
to create a system for evaluating quality that is tailored to the requirements of
contemporary vocational education. International research on models for evaluating the
quality of vocational education has not yet been thoroughly examined, nevertheless. This
study proposes a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology to evaluate the
teaching quality in vocational colleges. We use the TODIM methodology under the
plithogenic sets to deal with uncertainty information. The TODIM methodology is used
to rank the alternatives. Ten criteria and ten alternatives are used in this study. Three
experts evaluated criteria and alternatives using the plithogenic numbers. Then we used
the plithogenic operator to combine these numbers. The results show the Curriculum
Relevance and Industry Alignment criterion has the highest importance and Institutional
Reputation and Partnerships criterion has the lowest weights. The sensitivity analysis is
performed to show the different ranks of alternatives and robustness of the proposed
method. The results show the proposed method is strong under different criteria weights.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14607216