Application of augmented fuzzy cognitive map in education

In any academic setting, mutual respect among teachers, students and administrators is essential in order to maintain a positive learning environment. It is well established that the quality of children's relationships with their teachers in the early grades has important implications for children's concurrent and future academic and behavioral adjustment. Improving students’ relationships with teachers has important, positive and long-lasting implications for students’ academic and social development. Teachers who foster positive relationships with their students create classroom environments more conductive to learning and meet students’ developmental, emotional and academic needs. But due to certain inter personal and environmental factors, students hesitate to move closer to the teachers and these factors affect completely the quality of the relationship between teachers and students. Several studies have reported specific links between teacher – student relationship quality and student engagement. This study aims to analyze and prioritize various empirical, environmental and inter-intra personal factors that affects the quality of teacher-student relationship in the present educational era. For this analysis, an efficient tool which has the capability of solving an unsupervised data namely augmented fuzzy cognitive map has been used. A fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) can be understood as a graphical representation of the knowledge about or the perception of a given system. FCM is a combination of fuzzy logic and cognitive mapping.