A multicriteria methodology for the assessment of distance education traineesA multicriteria methodology for the assessment of distance education trainees Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-11-052005enIn this paper, the development of a methodology for the calculation of questions’ difficulty degree and creation of exams for distance education trainees is presented. The methodology is based on the principles of multicriteria decision analysis and multiobjective linear programming. The UTA* method is used in order to calculate the difficulty degree of any hypothetical question that can be described from the criteria defined and the Global Criterion method is used in order to solve the multiobjective mixed integer linear programming model that is constructed in order to create a test for the trainees.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Operational Research35419-433 Matsatsinis Nikolaos Ματσατσινης Νικολαος Vassilios Fortsas Springer Verlag Distance education and copyright copyright and distance education distance education and copyright