WP4b Qualitative Evaluation

Fakultät für Informatik
Professur Technische Informatik
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Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hardt
Student Mobility

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Agenda
Goal
Concept
Facts and Figures
Analysis of interviews
Conclusion
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Goal
• Introduce best EU practices of engineering math
education in Russia
• Evaluate the effectiveness with Russian students
 modify the Russian courses by applying some of the EU
methods and approaches and then conduct a large-scale
quantitative evaluation study of these courses
 send a group of Russian students to EU and conduct a
qualitative interview-based evaluation with them
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Concept
• Each individual student is interviewed before and
after the visit
• an individual program of courses at the host
universities is constructed
• courses are chosen based on 2 criteria:
 matching the program requirement of this student studies
at the home university
 high level of mathematical component in the course
• all credits are counted toward the program of study
in the home universities
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Student selection criteria
• good academic performance
• good independent work skills
• foreign language proficiency
• gender balance
• mostly MSc-level, as the only programs available in
the selected EU universities in English are MSc-
level programs
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Facts and Figures
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When
fall 2015 spring 2016 fall 2016
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Gender
female male

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Facts and Figures
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Host
UCBL UdS TUT TUC
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LETI NNSU TSU KNRTU OMSU
UCBL UdS TUT TUC

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Analysis interviews
Pre-interview
• half of students have experience abroad
• all have good to excellent knowledge of language
of study (f.e. TOEFL certificate)
• Very good to excellent in general in school and
university
 One-third participated in Olympiads: 3. math 1. Computer
Science
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Analysis interviews
Pre-interview
expectations and motivation, courses
• Gain modern and new knowledge in IT from
famous IT-developing countries
• Challenges with language and culture
• Practically-oriented and applied courses
• Boost for future carrer
• Get experience with study process in other country
• Improve english
• Computer Science based: Artificial Intelligence
Parallel Programming, Optimization
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Analysis interviews
Post-interview
experience, lessons learnt
• Interessting, attitude of studying
• Spend more hours on practice
• E-Mail adress for students, web-portal
+ system of periods, practice-oriented (f.e.Matlab)
Students can compose own schedule (no routine),
use spare time to visit other interessting courses, 2h
lunch break
- System of evaluation: get grade only after a final
test
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Analysis interviews
Post-interview
courses, math
• Mostly introductory courses
• Difficult to follow new courses
 Missing basic knowledge, accent, terminoloy
• More practice-oriented (Data-Mining)
• Lectures on interactive whiteboard
 Taking notes unnecessary
 No need to derive formulas  difficult and unproductive
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Conclusion
• Well organized
• Language barrier
 Basic level of french necessary in France
• European courses more practice-oriented
• more independency: schedule, mail adress,
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