Selecting suitable students as research assistants is important to improve their research skills and to reduce the cost of research projects. As such, this study sets out to develop a general decision matrix to determine the most appropriate criteria for evaluating and selecting qualified students as research assistants for research funded by university grants. In addition, the study attempts to explore the quality of such research assistants and the challenges facing supervisors in selecting the right candidates. In this study, a questionnaire consisting of 47 criteria adopted from a literature survey was administered to 23 experts at two Iraqi universities taken as a case study to identify the appropriate skills that research assistants should possess before they could be considered for recruitment. The Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) was used to reveal 16 appropriate criteria which were applied to a sample of 30 students using the Multi Criteria Decision Making method including.....

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