Balancing Faculty and Student Preferences in the Assignment of Students to Groups

Autor/inn/en	Forrester, Richard; Hutson, Kevin
Titel	Balancing Faculty and Student Preferences in the Assignment of Students to Groups
Quelle	In: Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 12 (2014) 2, S.131-147 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1540-4595
DOI	10.1111/dsji.12029
Schlagwörter	Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Methods; Preferences; First Year Seminars; College Faculty; College Freshmen; Student Placement; Mathematical Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grouping; Gruppenbildung; Method; Methode; Fakultät; Studienanfänger; Schülerpraktikum; Mathematical model; Mathematisches Modell
Abstract	This article describes a practical methodology for assigning students to groups where the goal is to create diversity within the groups while taking into consideration the preferences of the students. A motivating application of this work is the assignment of students to first-year seminars. In this common scenario, students select and rank a small subset of seminars from the list of those available. The academic institution then attempts to assign students to a seminar on their list, while maintaining course capacities. Faculty are interested in having seminars that are balanced with regards to gender and the number of international students, while students are interested in being assigned to one of their higher ranked seminars. In this article, we develop a simple multi-objective convex quadratic program that can determine assignments that are well balanced and satisfy the highest preferences of the students. The advantage of our approach is that the model can be submitted directly to a standard optimization software package, eliminating the need for a specialized algorithm. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10