Factors That Influence Students' Motivation to Start and to Continue Studying Information Technology in Estonia

Kori, Külli; Pedaste, Margus; Altin, Heilo; Tõnisson, Eno; Palts, Tauno

doi:10.1109/te.2016.2528889

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“…TC is specified as the total credits of all the courses in the curriculum as in (7). A disjoint constraint states that the course distributed to a semester should not be distributed to any other semester as in (8) and the subset union constraint states that the union of all semester courses should be equal to the set of all courses in the curriculum as specified in (9).…”

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Course Sequence Recommendation with Course Difficulty Index Using Subset Sum Approximation Algorithms

Premalatha

Viswanathan

2019

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Choice Based Course Selection (CBCS) allows students to select courses based on their preferred sequence. This preference in selection is normally bounded by constraints set by a university like pre-requisite(s), minimum and maximum number of credits registered per semester. Unplanned course sequence selection affects the performance of the students and may prolong the time to complete the degree. Course Difficulty Index (DI) also contributes to the decline in the performance of the students. To overcome these difficulties, we propose a new Subset Sum Approximation Problem (SSAP) aims to distribute courses to each semester with approximately equal difficulty level using Maximum Prerequisite Weightage (MPW) Algorithm, Difficulty Approximation (DA) algorithm and Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (AGA). The three algorithms have been tested using our university academic dataset and DA algorithm outperforms with 98% accuracy than the MPW and AGA algorithm during course distribution.

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“…Researchers have found that students find some required information technology programme courses to be quite difficult, e.g., mathematics and programming. Such types of difficult courses could lower students' grades, which in turn could lower their motivation to study, thus causing dropout [8].…”

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Course Sequence Recommendation with Course Difficulty Index Using Subset Sum Approximation Algorithms

Premalatha

Viswanathan

2019

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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“…The vast majority of engineering students and graduates are male, so there is a considerable amount of research focused on determining the possible factors or causes that make this phenomenon to happen (Marra et al 2012;Álvarez-Lires et al 2014;Stanko et al 2014;Kori et al 2016;Lee et al 2017;Oo et al 2018;Olmedo-Torre et al 2018). In the study of Álvarez-Lires et al (2014), the authors analyzed the reasons of students' disinterest or aversion to engineering careers in Galicia, Spain, through the use of questionnaires, interviews and discussion groups; they found in the results, as in the works of Marra et al (2012), that there are mainly problems of teaching science and technology subjects, causing them to avoid choosing engineering careers.…”

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“…Factors found by Kori et al (2016) that influence the motivation to start and continue studying IT in Estonia are five: (1) the previous personal contact with IT, (2) the reputation of the IT field, (3) both personal and IT development, (4) the desire to continue the previous IT studies, and (5) the learning environment. They consider these factors to be necessary for developing new interventions that increase students' interest in IT, likewise their enrollment and retention.…”

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Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers

Mata-López

Tobón²

2018

Social Sciences

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Despite the great need for computer-related career professionals, some universities that offer specialties to develop professionals with knowledge to cover the mention need, present a decrease in enrollment, which can cause a wide variety of problems. That is why in this paper we set out to investigate what the main factors that directly or indirectly affect student enrollment in computer-related careers are, to establish a literature-based starting point, and to help select the best possible strategy to improve enrollment. To reach this goal, we did a documentary research, categorizing each one of the factors with its respective analysis. In the results, we explain several challenges that educators face, due to the evolution of society needs, two of them are: teaching-learning models and technology; besides, it became evident that the relevance of this academic programs remain available since there is a high demand for these professionals in Mexico, as well as in the world; finally, we showed some intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors that have an essential relevance at the time that a student chooses the career to study. On the other hand, we reflected that the perception of everything that involves the study of a Computing-related career is a factor to be considered in the selection of an educational program of higher education. This study could be a reference for universities that are facing decreasing enrollment concerns. In conclusion, we analyzed and identified the main factors that have an impact on the demand for a career related to engineering, providing possible lines of action for increasing school enrollment.

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“…They often prefer economics, humanities or social science, even though they commonly use different technical products in everyday life. Questions, how to motivate undergraduate students to study electrical engineering, electronics and IT, is often discussed [1], [2], [3]. A whole range of events, which can help, are organized at CTU in Prague, Faculty of electrical engineering.…”

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How to support interest in engineering in secondary education

Fischer¹,

Haasz²

2019

Photonics and Education in Measurement Science 2019

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Two activities, how to increase interest in the study of electrical engineering and electronics, are described in the paper: workshops for teachers and participation in the Embedded Technology Club for students. Workshops for teachers acquaint them with the utilization of IT in a laboratory education, to make it more attractive and so to increase the interest of students to study natural sciences or engineering. The educational low-cost laboratory system and its applications in laboratories are presented during the workshop. The Embedded Technology Club (ETC) is a club intended as for students of secondary schools, who has an interest in electronics, as for other persons interested in this area. The business is focused both on education in the fundamentals of up-to-date design, development, and programming of electronic devices and solving some more simple projects concerning instrumentation. Activities are designed so that also students of secondary schools, who have no experience with electronics, but only basic knowledge in physics, can take part in. The priority is to have the interest to learn new things and to get hands-on experience.

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Factors That Influence Students' Motivation to Start and to Continue Studying Information Technology in Estonia

Cited by 39 publications

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Course Sequence Recommendation with Course Difficulty Index Using Subset Sum Approximation Algorithms

Course Sequence Recommendation with Course Difficulty Index Using Subset Sum Approximation Algorithms

Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers

How to support interest in engineering in secondary education

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