SmartRankEDU 360: an intelligent web platform for big data-enhanced educational strategy evaluation with WASPAS

SmartRankEDU 360 is a smart site to rank and assess educational strategies using big data and multi-criteria decision-making. It tackles critical issues of engagement/knowledge retention/cognitive efficiency/accessibility balance, which is typically hard to quantify by traditional means. SmartRankEDU 360 is affordable to educators, researchers, and policy makers because it is open source, light-weight, and runnable in a browser, and it does not require installation, unlike commercial and expensive decisionsupport systems. The site utilises an assessment technique called the Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS) which synthesises the Weighted Sum Model (WSM) and the Weighted Product Model (WPM) to generate effective and robust rankings. The system normalises, weights, and calculates hybrid scores and the user builds a decision matrix including strategies and criteria. The results are provided in the form of ranked alternatives and interactive plots including normalised matrices, weighted scores, and ranking graphs. It is simple and linear, reduces errors and makes evidence-based decision-making easier, and allows for flexibility in analysis.