APPLICATION OF THE FUZZY TOPSIS METHOD FOR LECTURER CERTIFICATION ASSESSMENT

Lecturer Certification (Serdos) is the method of granting educational certificates to lecturers as a formal verification of the speaker's recognition as an expert at a higher level of teaching. In Lecturer Certification, there is an Assessment of Lecturers' Self-Statements in Higher Education Tridharma Performance (PDD-UKTPT), which is divided into three Assessment Elements, namely Teaching, Research and Publication of Scientific Work and Community Service (PkM). The study focuses on teaching assessment. Sam Ratulangi University is one of the Universities Organizing Educator Certification for Lecturers (PTPS) in 2023. The Lecturer Certification assessment at Sam Ratulangi University does not describe the specific assessment range or include the importance weight of each criterion. Thus, this research aims to apply the Fuzzy TOPSIS method as an alternative in the assessment, which determines the importance and weight of each criterion and provides a description of the specific assessment range for each criterion to overcome uncertainty in the evaluation to provide clear guidelines for Serdos assessors in conducting the assessment. The research results regarding lecturer suitability decisions in assessing the Teaching Element. Therefore, it is found that Fuzzy TOPSIS can be used as an assessment method in Lecturer Certification, and it is better suited to handle the uncertainty issues often encountered in lecturer certification assessments. The result of this study provides an excellent accuracy of 100% compared with the manual method.