M. Tech. Information Networks / This dissertation reports on the development of an algorithm based on e-commerce matchmaking to select students. The student selection is an important strategic decision making task for the management of higher educational institutions and human resource departments of corporate organizations. The selection task has proven to be tedious mainly because of the decision process, the fundamental assumptions made and the level of accuracy achieved. The decision error that results from inaccurate student selection process is one source of skill mismatch. This work therefore seeks to improve the student selection accuracy using matchmaking approach. In doing so, e-commerce matchmaking method is applied to student selection and offered as an effective way of integrating cognitive and noncognitive skills to improve the selection accuracy. The efficacy of the matchmaking algorithm is demonstrated through a prototype implementation of the algorithm and specifically applied to university student selection.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001103 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Modiba, Michael Makgale. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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