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Integration of Multi-criteria Analysis into the Evaluation Process of Student Papers

Problems related to the management of projects, specifically priority ranking problems, can be found in all stages of projects’ life cycles, mostly as the result of inadequate decision making. Such place where engineering students can be challenged both creatively and by knowledge in a complex project environment can be found in the graduate study programme under the course of Project Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Rijeka. Priority ranking of student papers in faculty environment deals with complex decision making problems which is characterized by lots of participants, multidisciplinarity, huge quantities of information, different opinions as well as conflicting goals and criteria. In order to cope with such complexity and to help professors during evaluation process of student papers, the use of concept based on multi- criteria analysis for solving priority setting problem is proposed. The starting point of proposed concept is goal analysis and development of adequate criteria set. Evaluation of criteria importance is based on a set of experts’ opinions processed by AHP method, while all data processing is done by PROMETHEE multi-criteria methods. The main outcome of proposed concept is a rank list of student papers. Structuring such complex problems and considering multiple-criteria explicitly leads to more informed and better decisions, at the same time involving students in the process of setting up the concept making them active subjects nor end objects. Integration of multi-criteria analysis into evaluation process of student papers contributes to higher consistency in their priority ranking, and at the same time innovating curriculum of the course as it is introduced into education process of construction management.

Multi-criteria analysis; priority ranking; project management education; decision support

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