Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science

170-177

Authors: BROŽOVÁ, Helena

The aim of this article is to describe the proposed methodology of identification of the students’ weights or preferences of teacher’s managerial competencies at the Faculty of Economics, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (CULS). The goal of this article is not to evaluate the teacher’s scientific ability but describe the evaluation of the teacher’s managerial competencies weights from students’ point of view. For setting of weights there are many different methods that varied in the proportion of including the subjective and objective judgement. Commonly diffused method is the Analytic Hierarchy or Network Process by prof. Saaty (AHP or ANP). Because it is not possible to see or to evaluate teacher’s competencies in complexity, we proposed the questionnaires for pairwise comparisons of various teacher’s managerial characteristics and competencies. These answers are then analysed using the AHP method. The AHP is a method deriving global weights from partial weights received as result of pairwise comparisons.

187-196

Authors: KREJČÍ, Igor; KVASNIČKA, Roman; DÖMEOVÁ, Ludmila

The system thinking is the important component of study at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS Prague) but the system dynamics is not the part of education there. Current effort is to focus on implementation of system dynamics into existing courses of Mathematical Methods in Economics. The objective of the paper is to design and test flexible seminars’ structure of system dynamics at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague during the lessons and seminars on the courses of Mathematical Methods in Economics. The results are necessary for successful introduction of system dynamics courses at CULS Prague. First part of the paper describes the role of system dynamics in education and the registered benefits from its implementation into education at different schools and universities. Second part contains the sources that constitute the basis for the seminars’ structure design. The proposed structure is tested in third part through the questionnaire and the opinions of students.

207-218

Authors: Milková, Eva

Logical thinking of students should be enhanced at all levels of their studies. There are many possibilities how to achieve it. In the paper one possible way within the subjects “Discrete Mathematics” and “Discrete Methods and Optimization” dealing with graph theory and combinatorial optimization will be presented. These mathematical disciplines are powerful tools for teachers allowing them to develop logical thinking of students, increase their imagination and make them familiar with solutions to various problems. Thanks the knowledge gained within the subjects students should be able to describe various practical situations with the aid of graphs, solve the given problem expressed by the graph, and translate the solution back into the initial situation. Student engagement is crucial for successful education. Practical tasks and puzzles attract students to know more about the explained subject matter and to apply gained knowledge. There are an endless number of enjoyable tasks, puzzles and logic problems in books like “Mathematics is Fun”, in riddles magazines and on the Internet. In the paper, as an inspiration, four puzzles developing logical thinking appropriate to be solved using graph theory and combinatorial optimization will be introduced. On these puzzles of different level of difficulty the students’ ability to find out the appropriate graph-representation of the given task and solve it will be discussed as well. The author of the paper has been prepared with her students various multimedia applications dealing with objects appropriate to subject matter for more than 15 years. In the paper we also discuss a benefit of multimedia applications used as a support of subjects “Discrete Mathematics” and “Discrete Methods and Optimization”.