A hybrid model in the selection of prototypes for educational tools: An applicability in verbal decision analysis

Aiming to answer the growing demand for professionals with knowledge about software processes, this paper presents ideas for creating educational tools that supports its teaching. The paper defines six options of prototypes of educational tools and illustrates the study of preferences elicitation in the application of a hybrid method using ORCLASS and PACOM methodologies from verbal decision analysis (VDA) framework to classify and rank the prototypes according to the decision maker preferences. The application with prototypes was chosen because the software engineering is an area that allows the wide research in the preferences elicitation process. The research results show that, the adoption of qualitative methods of decision support, can benefit significantly the selection of the interface aiming to use the selected interface from the approved group and ranked for future development of real educational tools applications.