Award Recommendation System Using Trust-Aware Matrix Factorization Method Based on Students’ Feedback
摘要
Awards to faculty are attracting considerable interest due to their benefits for both academics and society. Faculty members dedicate their efforts to teaching, driven by a commitment to education rather than the pursuit of awards. Student feedback, particularly in online settings, plays a crucial role in evaluating teaching effectiveness. This study addresses the framework for selecting the best faculty by considering online feedback. The implementation of this framework involves utilizing trust-based algorithms to refine matrix factorization, leveraging the online feedback of 68 students on 16 questions across 5 different subjects to construct a robust recommendation system. The results underscored the prominence of the Theory of Computation (TOC) subject across various dimensions and pinpointed question number 16 as a crucial predictor, endorsed by 22 students, with RMSE, MAE, and MSE values of 0.8827, 0.7119, and 0.7792, respectively. Moreover, subjects such as human–machine interface (HMI) and business communication (BC) received higher ratings, whereas Database Systems (DB) and Software Engineering (SE) displayed moderate and variable ratings.