Context based ranking strategies for renowned instructional methodologies

The main objective of this work is to validate the decisions made towards adoption of appropriate instructional methodologies based on the context of a specific region considering the quality of education, the cost of education and the learning outcomes as predominant parameters. The non-deterministic events and uncertain situations that may arise over a long-range period impose a vague and fuzzy environment in the educational system. Investigations have been made to identify suitable educational framework for implementation in the institutions of a specific region in view of these unpredictable events and non-deterministic conditions. Fuzzy decision analysis and rough set theory have been applied to rank the prominent instructional methodologies which are encompassed within each educational framework. Hurwicz Rule is adopted to balance the pessimistic and optimistic opinions about the non-deterministic events while validating the merits of the instructional methodologies. Grey relational analysis is carried out while ranking instructional methodologies in a vague environment. In this work, the instructional methodologies are ranked using fuzzy entropy as well as crisp entropy measures and the outcomes of the fuzzy and rough sets-based decision analysis have been validated.