BÜTÜNLEŞİK VZA VE LINMAP İLE TÜBİTAK DESTEKLİ BİLİM MERKEZLERİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Abstract

Today, Science Centers (SC) have a complementary place in education as an out-of-school learning environment. SCs, which aim to change the perspective of visitors to science by linking science and the real world, are becoming more and more interesting both in the world and in our country. In our country, six SC came into activity with Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)'s cooperation. These are Konya SC, Kocaeli SC, Kayseri SC, Bursa Science and Technology Center, Elazig SC and Science Üsküdar. In this study, we evaluated these SCs as integrated with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Linear Programming Technique For Multidimensional Analysis of Preferences (LINMAP) methods. Firstly, we calculated the efficiency of the SCs by using the "establishment expense", "the number of staff", "the number of workshop" as inputs and "the number of workshop visitors" and "the number of visitors" as outputs. Then, based on the efficiency score, we made pairwise comparisons and established the LINMAP model consisting of nine criteria. These criteria are “area”, “establishment expense”, “number of staff”,“number of workshop”, “number of permanent thematic exhibition galleries”, “number of permanent exhibition arrangements”, “entrance fee”, “number of workshop visitors” and “number of visitors”. Finally, we analyzed the LINMAP model with sensitivity analysis under different conditions and sorted the SCs and interpreted the results.Elazig Science Center has the highest efficiency score according to DEA. The sorting obtained from the LINMAP method varied depending on the h parameter. Kocaeli, Elazig and Üsküdar have become prominent according to increasing “h”values which is the difference between consistency and inconsistency.

Keywords

• science center
• data envelopment analysis (dea)
• linmap
• informal education