Applying Multi-Criteria Method to the Decision of Assessment Tools for High-care Student Groups

An effective assessment tool can prevent student dropout problems that are a continuous concern in the educational world in advance. If students can be screened before dropping out and offered preventive counseling, their risk behaviors will be more effectively controlled than if they are found and returned to school. Researchers are diligently developing efficient and effective assessment tools in the name of “prevention over treatment.” A multi-criteria decision making method that is the analysis hierarchy process (AHP) is applied for professional counselors and uses questionnaires to select a series of key criteria for high-care group assessment tools that can be adopted in school counseling units in this paper, and it is a multi-criteria decision method and is also used to establish a model for selecting assessment tools for high-care students groups in vocational high schools. The proposed model can offer counseling units in vocational high schools in Taiwan an objective and effective method for selecting optimal assessment tools.