Evaluation of faculty performance in higher education using AHP and TOPSIS Method

Operations research is the development of approaches for optimal decision making. A prominent class of such problems is multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). Evaluation of faculty performance is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Best faculty members are the assets of an educational institution for increasing the quality education. So the performance evaluation of teachers is very much essential in education to enrich their knowledge and to assess each individual's contribution to the institution.

In this paper a study has been made by applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) to calculate the relative weights of factors to discover the importance of each factor to evaluate faculty performance in higher education. Here ten students feedback of a particular department have been considered to evaluate four teachers performances based on the criteria: subject knowledge, method of teaching, communication skill, accessibility, discipline & behavior, power of explanation and attitude. The proposed model yields the ranking of the four faculty members for evaluating their performances.