Assessment of laboratory courses using fuzzy reasoning

Abstract

A new method is presented for laboratory courses assessment using fuzzy reasoning. Instructors often encounter problems when assessing students in the lab. Instructors know items that impress on the assessment ambiguously in the form of some vague expressions. These are called linguistic expression in the fuzzy logic field. Also the result of assessment can be easily expressed ambiguously using some expression such as satisfied, unsatisfied, good and so on. Instructors (that are experts in our fuzzy system) can relate input expression to output expressions. In this work we present a fuzzy method for assessment of laboratory courses that is performed during the course instead of doing that at the end of the course.