ABSTRACT:The field of analyzing performance is very important and sensitive in particular when it is related to the performance of lecturers in academic institutions. Locating the weak points of lecturers through a system that provides an early warning to notify or reward the lecturers with warned or punished notices will help them to improve their weaknesses, leads to a better quality in the institutions. The current system has major issues in the higher education at Salahaddin University-Erbil (SUE) in Kurdistan-Iraq. These issues are: first, the assessment of lecturers' activities is conducted traditionally via the Quality Assurance Teams at different departments and colleges at the university, second, the outcomes in some cases of lecturers' performance provoke a low level of acceptance among lectures, as these cases are reflected and viewed by some academic communities as unfair cases, and finally, the current system is not accurate and vigorous. In this paper, Particle Swarm Optimization with Neural Network is used to assess performance of lecturers in more fruitful way and also to enhance the accuracy of recognition system. Different real and novel data sets are collected from SUE. The prepared datasets preprocessed and important features are then fed as input source to the training and testing phases. Particle Swarm Optimization is used to find the best weights and biases in the training phase of the neural network. The best accuracy rate obtained in the test phase is 98.28%. ß

Lecturer performance analysis has enormous influence on the educational life of lecturers in universities. The existing system in universities in Kurdistan-Iraq is conducted conventionally, what is more, the evaluation process of performance analysis of lecturers is assessed by the managers at various branches at the university andin view of that, in some cases the outcomes of this process cause a low level of endorsement among staffs who believe that most of these cases are opinionated. This paper suggests a smart and an activesystem in which both unique and multiple soft computing classifier techniques are used to examine performance analysis of lecturers of college of engineering at Salahaddin University-Erbil (SUE). The dataset collected from the quality assurancedepartment at SUE. The dataset composes of three sub-datasets namely: Student Feedback (FB), Continuous Academic Development (CAD) and lecturer's portfolio (PRF). Each of the mentioned subdatasets is classified with a different classifier technique. FB uses BackPropagation Neural Network (BPNN), CAD uses Naïve Bayes Classifier (NBC) and the third sub-dataset uses Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a classifier technique. After implementing the system, the results of the above sub-datasets are collected and then fed as input data to BPNN technique to obtain the final result and accordingly, the lectures are awarded, warned or punished.