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The virtual learning landscapes have created complex environments when evaluating an educational experience. The Fuzzy Delphi method, which incorporates the theory of fuzzy sets, takes the opinions issued by judges, from a linguistic perspective, to validate a questionnaire that will measure the degree of success of an educational experience. The judges have to reach a consensus on the validity and applicability of the instrument. This work contributes to the validation of questionnaires by enabling linguistic assessments and not only binary answers and with a calculus of consistency and consensus degrees for each item, which contributes to consensus reaching. It has been used as a practical experience to define, with the consensus of nine experts, a questionnaire that measures the virtual communication and the satisfaction with in a Blended-Learning pilot experience in the subject of Software Fundamentals, 1st semester of the Degree in Computer Engineering of the University of Granada.
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Morales, J., Montes, R., Zermeño, N., Duran, J., Herrera, F. (2018). The Use of Fuzzy Linguistic Information and Fuzzy Delphi Method to Validate by Consensus a Questionnaire in a Blended-Learning Environment. In: Medina, J., Ojeda-Aciego, M., Verdegay, J., Perfilieva, I., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Applications. IPMU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 855. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91479-4_12
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