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A new educational grading system based on fuzzy techniques

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In this article, the authors propose a new educational grading system based on fuzzy techniques, which includes five interrelated modules. Through an example to illustrate the process of the proposed fuzzy educational grading system, we find that the proposed system meets the basic requirements of the educational grading system and can overcome the limitations of existing fuzzy educational grading systems. By comparing the proposed fuzzy educational grading system with traditional methods, we find that the proposed evaluation system can more objectively and intelligently evaluate students’ answer sheets. The aim of the proposed method is not to replace the existing fuzzy educational grading systems, but to enrich the present systems for students’ learning achievement evaluation.

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Funding

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62106206 and 62176142), the Grant from MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, China (Grant Nos. 19YJCZH048 and 20XJCZH016), the Science and Technology Support Project of Sichuan province, China (Grant No. 2023YFH0066), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant Nos. 2682020ZT107, 24GJHZ0068, JBK2102037 and JBK2003006).

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  1. School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China

    Xingxing He

  2. School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, 611130, China

    Yingfang Li & Bin Yang

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Table 15 The expected fuzzy value of each satisfaction level
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Table 16 The satisfaction degree of each question evaluated by each teacher in \(A_1\)
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Table 17 The expected fuzzy value of each interval value obtained in Table 15
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He, X., Li, Y. & Yang, B. A new educational grading system based on fuzzy techniques. Soft Comput 28, 8077–8103 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-023-09611-w

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