2012 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 56-64
In the Mahalanobis-Taguchi (MT) system known as the new pattern recognition methodology, Taguchi method(1), in which the results of the synthetic judgments are able to have plus values or minus values, do not generate multi-collinearity. In this study, we propose to measure the educational effectiveness by Taguchi method(1) in consideration of the characteristics (simultaneity,heterogeneity) of education, and its usefulness is examined. This paper shows the concept of modeling the measurement of educational effectiveness, and proposes some measures for the increase of internal knowledge and compares them. The extension of Taguchi method(1) to the measurement of educational effectiveness is studied, the selection of the characteristic items is examined and the combined estimates are obtained. It is shown that Taguchi method(1) is valid for the measurement of educational effectiveness. As a result, we could extract educational and learning factors for increasing internal knowledge and make improvement proposals from the standpoints of both teacher and student. In addition, we showed that we could make improvement proposals in consideration of the heterogeneity for the individual student.
