Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science

Number 3-4, 2014

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THE WORK-STUDY DILEMMA OF CZECH UNDERGADUATES

Authors: FISCHER, Jakub; LIPOVSKÁ, Hana

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the work-study dilemma of Czech students. We examine the impact of the work and study workload on the student’s expectations for their future labour market chances. For the future formal evaluation of Czech students’ workload, it is necessary to take into account if the students’ jobs are closely connected to their field of study, which make up the important part of their education. We used a unique dataset based on the survey EUROSTUDENT V to test this challenging question. We have found that Czech full-time students almost one full-time employment studying and working in one workweek. It was proven, that students who study very hard as well as students with in-branch experience are optimistic about their future labour prospects. Business-minded students especially prefer working hours to studying at school or at home. We did not discover the importance of family background to their workload with the exception of the labour-market perspectives. Furthermore we found considerable differences between men and women’s work experience during their studies. Finally, according to the solution of the WSDM model, we proved that while working hours are substitutes for hours spent at school, the role of self-study is irreplaceable.

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THE SERVICES QUALITY LEVEL ASSESSESMENT IN THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY WITH SERVQUAL METHOD APPLYING

Authors: STASIAK-BETLEJEWSKA, Renata; KAYE, Michael; DYASON, Marilyn; STACHOVÁ, Katarina; URBANCOVÁ, Hana

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Contemporary universities services quality level concerns mainly the education efficiency evaluation that results from the learning outcomes realization and innovative features of the teaching programs that differ universities offers. Technical universities attention is focused on ministerial requirements fulfillment which are strictly concentrated on the students skills obtaining in the relation to the employers’ market. The university services quality analysis ignores common expectations of students and candidates for students related to the technical or functional quality, such as university facilities and administrative workers empathy. The aim of this study is to identify the expectations of both students and candidates for studies at technical universities, what allows to identify university services quality level and areas needs improvement in terms of not only the educational services but also technical university facilities. Results show significant importance of the all examined service quality aspects in the context of expectations of candidates and students’ perception. Research findings allow not only to identify the technical university services quality, but also to support the university development within the scientific research process assistance.

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ANALYSIS OF EXAM RESULTS OF THE SUBJECT ’APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR IT’

Authors: BROŽOVÁ, Helena; RYDVAL, Jan

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In this paper the exam results of the subject “Applied Mathematics for Informatics” from the last 10 years have been analysed. The exam has two parts: written test and oral exam. The grades of the students of the subject Applied Mathematics for Informatics formerly Methods of Operation Research have been low for a long time. We want to know if this is due to the quality of the tests or due to reducing the number of hours of contact teaching or due to the mathematical character of the subject and to the unpopularity of such kind of subjects or some other factors, for instance. Based on the bad results, students have also initiated a change in the scoring system. This article builds on our paper at the conference ERIE 2013. The main goals of this paper are to find out if the grades have had the tendency to decline during the years and to evaluate the validity, reliability, difficulty, and discrimination power of the tests.

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COMPARISON OF RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT OF PHD STUDENTS AT VARIOUS STUDY PROGRAMS AT CULS PRAGUE: AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY

Authors: FLÉGL, Martin; VOSTRA VYDROVA, Hana; TICHA, Ivana

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In an attempt to improve the quality of doctoral studies and the satisfaction of PhD students at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS Prague) the authors disseminated online questionnaire among all PhD students in May and June 2014. The questionnaire covered areas related to doctoral study, PhD supervisors, doctoral scholarship, research publications, and last but not least, to satisfaction with the doctoral study. In this article responses related to research, such as allocation of time to doctoral studies, allocation of time to research, involvement in research projects and satisfaction with research outputs. The authors provide comparison of all above mentioned domains according to faculties as well as form of doctoral studies at CULS Prague.

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDY PLAN OF THE PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED BACHELOR STUDY FIELD OF MULTIMEDIA IN ECONOMIC PRACTISE

Authors: VONDRA, Zdeněk; VLTAVSKA, Kristyna

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This paper focuses on the study field of Multimedia in Economic Practise which has been taught at the University of Economics in Prague since 2011. This study field has its first graduates which is the reason for a re-examination of the profile of graduates according to the structure of subjects in the study plan. This paper describes evolution of the study field, its content, main idea and structure of its students. It presents two main groups of occupations for graduates with dependence on requirements for student’s additional independent activities beyond the study. The analytical part shows five examples of comparison of the course relevance according to the opinion of students and academic staff. The conclusions from the survey will enable academic staff of the study field to the reconsider the future development of the study field.

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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES E-LEARNING EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Authors: KUČÍRKOVÁ, Lenka; KUČERA, Petr; VOSTRÁ VYDROVÁ, Hana

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The paper deals with ESP e-learning experimental research conducted in the lessons of Business English in winter term of academic year 2012/13. Students were provided with the online study material developed within the grant of the Higher Institution Development Fund of the Czech Republic 2011, no. F5-1836. Online study support for Business English is a 14 module course in the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) which is used for study purposes on the B1 level of the Common European Framework of References for Languages.

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TEACHING TACIT KNOWLEDGE: CAN ARTIFICAL INTELIGENCE HELP?

Authors: ŠVEC, Václav; PAVLICEK, Josef; TICHA, Ivana

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In the paper we first examine students´ ability to use tacit knowledge. We conducted the experiment to test whether the students are able to transfer and use tacit knowledge they obtained in the basic course of Strategic management. As tacit knowledge is difficult to transfer to another person we used course design with several experiential techniques to increase the students´ abilities in the field of Strategic management. For the evaluation experiment we chose to play a board game “Power Grid”, where we tested whether the students were able to use knowledge they had been taught in the basic course. As the result we found out low students´ ability to use tacit knowledge even despite the fact that in the basic course where they obtained the knowledge we used experiential techniques which force students to acquire a skill and therefore, according to Polanyi (in Schmidt, Hunter, 1993), they also acquire corresponding understanding that defies articulation, therefore tacit knowledge. According to the result of the experiment we propose the business game with the artificial intelligence as a teaching tool which can be further discussed as a tool for teaching specific tacit knowledge in the paper.

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS – THE COMPARISON OF THE VIEW OF STUDENTS AND POTENTIAL STUDENTS

Authors: KVASNICKOVA STANISLAVSKA, Lucie; KVASNICKA, Roman; KURALOVA, Katerina; MARGARISOVA, Klara

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The paper discusses the concept of social responsibility of higher educational institutions (HEI). The concept of corporate social responsibility was initially created for the commercial sector. With changes occurring in the external environment, this concept is now also being introduced in other areas, e.g. in HEI. The paper describes the qualitative part of research on the application of the concept of social responsibility within public HEI in the Czech Republic. Through the method of focus groups the article chases up the knowledge and relationship to problems of social responsibility of universities between two important groups of interest - current and potential students – and students´ requirements on universities.