Decision Support System for Identifying Best Students in the Class with Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Method

Abstract

Education is an important requirement for someone in managing the future. In this case, educational institutions seek to improve the quality of students by increasing student achievement. Each student must have different achievements, especially in the academic field. Student achievement is a measure of success obtained by a person or student during the process of learning activities. In achieving outstanding students there must be a role and contribution from various parties such as the government and schools. The criteria used to determine the best student in each class are report cards, attendance, extracurriculars and attitudes. In determining it, the MIMA 37 Sunan Kalijogo, Ambulu District took a long time. To simplify the process, it is necessary to create a decision support system to determine the best students. This decision support system uses the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method with a website-based application. In this system, the determination of the best student in each class is based on the ranking obtained from calculating the weight of the criteria and the weight of the student. From the ranking results it can be seen that students with the highest ranking can be said to be the best students. With the creation of this decision support system, it is hoped that it can produce objective decisions to determine outstanding students.