Academic Performance of Students and Difficulty of University Education

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Academic Performance of Students and Difficulty of University Education
Original language description
The paper is focused on two selected factors of university education, i.e. on the academic performance of students and on the difficulty of university studies. The target group consists of university students of distance form of study programme Teaching of Practical Vocational Training observed in the period of their three-year studies. The aim of the paper is: (1) to determine the level of academic performance of students in relation to the Gaussian distribution in each of the past five academic years in order to assess whether their studies are optimal, easy or difficult, (2) to find out the subjective degree of difficulty of studies in two academic years with an interval of five years, (3) to compare these two academic years from the perspective of subjective difficulty and achieved academic performance. The academic performance of students is represented by their grade point average for all the years of studies. The grade point average is then categorized into ECTS grading scale with the categori
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 10th International Scientific Conference: Rural Environment - Education - Personality (REEP).
ISBN
978-9984-48-259-0
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
473-480
Publisher name
The Latvia University of Agriculture, Institute of Education and Home Economics, Latvia
Place of publication
Jelgava
Event location
Jelgava
Event date
May 12, 2017
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000405070400060

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