Increasing the Success Rate in Mathematics at the College of Polytechnics Jihlava (Czech Republic) as a Result of the Implementation of Support Measures

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Increasing the Success Rate in Mathematics at the College of Polytechnics Jihlava (Czech Republic) as a Result of the Implementation of Support Measures

Original language description

This article evaluates students’ success rate in Mathematics 1, and its main objective is to show that the success rate has been increasing over the last two years. The introduction of several support measures has been the impetus for the achieved improvement. First of all, it was decided to make students with insufficient level of mathematical knowledge enrol in a supporting course, called the Mathematical Seminar, before studying Mathematics 1. In Mathematical Seminar these students can complete and practice their knowledge and skills of secondary mathematics. A database of solved and unsolved exercises, a textbook, and an e-learning module were created to fit the purposes of the Mathematical Seminar. The characteristic feature of these introduced materials is the special emphasis that has been placed on their comprehensibility and complete clarity. The possibility to attend the winter and summer schools of mathematics represents yet another supportive measure. Research has shown that statistically significant improvements have been achieved by students in the programmes of Finance and Management, Applied Computer Science, and Travel and Tourism. On the contrary, no significant improvement has been demonstrated regarding the students in the Computer Systems programme. To assess the dependencies we used the analysis of contingency tables and correspondence analysis. In order to identify a statistically significant improvement in the students’ results in Mathematics 1 nonparametric two-sample tests of equality of means were applied.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

ISSN

2146-7242

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

speccial issue

Country of publishing house

TR - TURKEY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

142-150

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057638029