MCDM Approach to Assess Dropping Out of Education by Children

Abstract

A lifelong process to learn new things is education which has a continuous focus on the learners. In the life as well as evolution of mankind, the education plays a significant role through the creation of knowledge, attitudes and awareness among the children as learners for the betterment and sustainable society. In the present study, different significant reasons for dropping out of education by the children in the province of Odisha in India were found through literature and experts’ opinions. Then, the “Step Wise Assessment and Ratio Analysis (SWARA)” method was utilized to rank these significant reasons based on their preferences.