Evaluating the Relative Effectiveness of Different Structuring and Weighting Techniques for Multi-Attribute Value Assessment

摘要

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the relative effectiveness of different structuring and weighting techniques for Multi-Attribute Value Assessment (MAVA). In particular, the first experiment evaluated the relative effectiveness of two techniques for structuring the MAVA hierarchy; the second experiment evaluated the relative effectiveness of five techniques for obtaining an individual's weights on attributes in the hierarchy; and the third experiment evaluated the relative effectiveness of two weighting techniques, in conjunction with two discussion techniques, for obtaining group weights on attributes in the hierarchy. In all three experiments, the participants were second lieutenants in the U.S. Marine Corps who had completed their training at The Basic School. The external criterion was the MAVA model for the ATTACK Mission Performance Standard (MPS) in the Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation System (MCCRES).