Evaluation of the Competencies That Affect the Achievements of the Econometrics Graduate Students: ABO Decision Support System

Nowadays, most of the graduate students are trying to reach their carrier goals by continuing their education life with postgraduate programs. Determining and evaluating competencies to be successful in the postgraduate programs is an important issue for the success of both students and the program. Fuzzy DEMATEL method was used in evaluation of student achievement competencies of Econometrics postgraduate program which was included in the study. In the study, for the researchers who want to use the Fuzzy DEMATEL method, a new package program has been prepared by considering the lack of a free and easy-to-use package program and therefore the calculation problems experienced by most researchers using the method. Using the Python programming language and working in the Windows Operating System, the ABO decision support system for Fuzzy DEMATEL and DEMATEL was introduced with the example in the study. By evaluating the results of the method, it was determined the most important competencies that the students need to develop before starting to the program graduate, and important outputs were obtained to be utilized in the evaluation of the graduate candidates. The graphical results obtained with the ABO decision support system provided useful inferences.