Matrix Scoring and Ranking
Matrix scoring and ranking is a participatory rural appraisal tool in which community members evaluate a set of options — crop varieties, services, trees, livestock breeds, sources of water — against criteria they themselves generate, arranged as a matrix. Options run along one axis and criteria along the other, and participants score each cell, typically by placing a number of counters such as seeds or stones to show how well an option performs on that criterion. Summing the scores across criteria produces a ranking of the options that reflects the community's own values and priorities.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Chambers, R. (1994). The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal. World Development, 22(7), 953–969. · DOI 10.1016/0305-750X(94)90141-4
- Bernard, H. R. (2017). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (6th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. · ISBN 9780759112421
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
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Related methods
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