The New approaches in the multi-objective decision making and an application on the pre-school education

IX ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the traditional and new multi-objective decision making methods and then to propose a method for the overall evaluation of the pre-school education. Ministry of Education applied a program to the 6 years old pre-school education students who live in the squatter's houses in Antalya in July- August 2001. In this study, the questionnaires, applied on the students at the beginning and end of the period are used. Firstly the questionnaires were evaluated by statistical methods. Then, the result of the statistical evaluation used for the construction of three goal programming models. The evaluation of this education program was aimed in these three models. Decision variables in the constructed models were defined with respect to the number of people living in each houses and the living conditions of the houses. Goal and constraints functions were defined by using statistical data which is generated by applying questionnaire form which was designed by using Portage Control List and Denver II Developmental Tests. These questionnaire evaluates the children with respect to their educational, behavioral and social dimensions. As a result of the first, the children living in the houses with 7-9 people or 10 or more people and unsatisfactory condition have the most advantageous position at the beginning of the education program. With respect to the second model, the group of children who live in the houses with 4-6 people and in the satisfactory condition are the most successful ones. With the third model, the children group that education program provided most contribution was determined. The children, who live in the houses with less than 4 people and unsatisfactory conditions, take the most contribution at all dimensions from the education program.