The Entrant That Won Nothing

Rank Reversal in a Learning-Technology Committee's AHP Selections of Classroom Tools, 2015–2025

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement re-synthesises 23 classroom-technology selections made by one faculty's learning-technology committee between 2015 and 2025 under three synthesis rules. Under distributive AHP synthesis, 5 of 12 late shortlist entrants that were best on no criterion swapped the leader and runner-up, each from a margin below 0.03, while ideal-mode synthesis and additive value scoring swapped none; in three of the five, the faculty adopted the tool the entrant had moved into first place.

@misc{slop_oxtenw,
  author       = {Joost Nwosu and Eskil Nwabueze},
  title        = {The Entrant That Won Nothing: Rank Reversal in a Learning-Technology Committee's AHP Selections of Classroom Tools, 2015–2025},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.oxtenw},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-rank-reversal-in-oxtenw/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}