Decision Support System for Selection of Achieving Students Using the Multi Attribute Rating Technique Method

Abstract

The background of this research is the process of selecting students in SMA Negeri 1 Sumberpucung so far is still not objective because it only looks at the best report card grades without any other process. That causes the inappropriate selection of high achieving students in SMA Negeri 1 Sumberpucung because the student is not only assessed in terms of report cards but also needs to consider other factors. So the selected students can represent the school at a higher level, namely the district and provincial levels. The purpose of this study is to build a decision support system to help selectors make the selection of high achieving students in SMA Negeri 1 Sumberpucung and assist in making decisions in the selection process of high achieving students using the Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) method. The stages of the research method used the waterfall software development method. In the first stage, an analysis of input and output needs is carried out, the second stage is by designing a decision support system using the SMART method, the third stage is customizing the decision support system, the fourth stage of program testing and the final stage of program implementation. The Decision support system is built based on the web and uses a MySQL database. From this research, it is expected to be able to produce an application or decision support system software.

Keywords: Decision Support System; Student Achievement Selection; Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART)

DOI: 10.7176/IKM/10-5-06

Publication date:August 31^st 2020