THE DETERMINANT OF SUCCESS IN BASIC ECONOMICS COURSES TAUGHT BY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN PRAGUE

Michal Mirvald () and Martina Tománková ()
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Michal Mirvald: University of Economics
Martina Tománková: University of Economics

No 5908318, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: In comparison with other basic courses at the University of Economics in Prague there are basic economics courses taught by the Department of Economics that regularly show higher fail rates, specifically more than 35 %. A standard evaluation should be done in time and shall use different methods. Using quantitative methods, our analysis tries to identify key determinants of students? success. The data were obtained via a questionnaire during the last lecture in WS 2016/17. As opposed to existing studies, we also consider variables that weren?t previously possible to observe, such as the use of IT technologies during lectures and studying from materials in electronic form.

Keywords: Economics; economics courses; determinant; fail rate; midterm points; test score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A20 C10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2017-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 34th International Academic Conference, Florence, Oct 2017, pages 163-163

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