Prioritization of Professional Competencies of Mathematics lecturers of Farhangian University through topsis fuzzy
Subject Areas :marjan moayeri 1 * , parvaneh amiripour 2
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Professional Competencies, Mathematics Professors, Teaching, Fuzzy TOPSIS.,
Abstract :
The selection of mathematics professors is an important issue for universities, since professors are the main pillars of the universities and improving the quality of their performance leads to the improvement of the universities’ educational quality.The aim of this study is to Prioritization of Professional Competencies of Mathematics lecturers of Farhangian University in Iran ,through topsis fuzzy. The present study is an applied research in terms of purpose and is a combination of documentary content analysis and descriptive-analytical research in terms of nature and method. At first, the statistical population including all available domestic and foreign theoretical and research texts were selected and studied. In the second stage, to rank the selected competencies, five mathematics professors were purposefully selected from Farhangian University branches of Hormozgan province, who determined the importance of each of the indicators in a designed questionnaire that were assigned to them. The data were then analyzed, using TOPSIS fuzzy method.Based on the findings, knowledge competence, abilities competence, characteristics competence and skills competence were the most important competencies.According to the mentioned results, it can be understood that Farhangian universities can use the findings of this study to select the professional competencies of their mathematics professors.
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