An ExpTODIM-MACONT Based Multiple-Attribute Group Decision-Making Technique for Smart Classroom Teaching Evaluation of Basic English Under Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Circumstances

Abstract

With the rapid development of information technology, the university teaching model has also begun to break free from constraints from two dimensions of time and space, becoming a new teaching model -smart classroom. Supported by the theory of smart classrooms, the reform of basic English curriculum teaching in China has received much attention. Currently, the reform of basic English curriculum teaching mainly faces three problems: incomplete resource allocation, limited development conditions, and poor practicality. Based on this, utilizing the theory of smart classrooms, we can solve the problem of incomplete resource allocation by building an "educational community", innovate teaching models, enhance students' English autonomous learning and practical application abilities, and achieve strategic analysis of basic English curriculum teaching reform. The smart classroom teaching evaluation of basic English is a multiple-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem. Recently, the Exponential TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multicriteria decision making) technique and Mixed Aggregation by Comprehensive Normalization Technique (MACONT) has been used to cope with MAGDM issues. The interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets (IVPFSs) are used as a tool for characterizing uncertain information during the smart classroom teaching evaluation of basic English. In this manuscript, the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy Exponential TODIM-MACONT (IVPF-ExpTODIM-MACONT) technique is built to solve the MAGDM under IVPFSs. In the end, a numerical case study for smart classroom teaching evaluation of basic English is implemented to validate the proposed technique. The main contributions of this paper are outlined: ( 1) the ExpTODIM and MACONT technique has been extended to IVPFSs; (2) Information Entropy technique is employed to manage the weight values under IVPFSs. (3) the IVPF-ExpTODIM-MACONT technique is founded to implement the MAGDM under IVPFSs; (4) a numerical case study for smart classroom teaching evaluation of basic English and some comparative analysis is supplied to verify the IVPF-ExpTODIM-MACONT technique. Thus, the main advantages of the proposed IVPF-ExpTODIM-MACONT technique are outlined: (1) the proposed IVPF-ExpTODIM-MACONT not only handles the uncertainty in real MADM issues, but also portrays the DMs' psychological behavior during the smart classroom teaching evaluation of basic English. (2) the proposed IVPF-ExpTODIM-MACONT analyze the behavior of the TODIM and MACONT as MADM techniques when they are hybridized. INDEX TERMS: Multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM); interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets (IVPFSs); Exponential TODIM (ExpTODIM) technique; MACONT technique; smart classroom teaching evaluation