Fuzzy Assessment Methods

Fuzzy logic due to its nature of characterizing each case with multiple values offers is a rich field of resources covering the assessment of situations characterized by a degree of fuzziness and/or uncertainty. In this paper, we present two different fuzzy assessment models: The Centre of Gravity (COG) model and Trapezoidal Fuzzy Assessment Model (TRFAM). The last one is a new model covering the ambiguous cases being at the boundaries between two successive assessment intervals. An application (students' assessment) is also presented, through which the above methods are compared to each other and also with two traditional assessment methods based on principles of bivalent logic (the calculation of means and of the GPA index). Some useful conclusions are drawn about the characteristics of the above fuzzy assessment models.