Not only unemployment itself but also the reduced work intensity of a household has a major impac... more Not only unemployment itself but also the reduced work intensity of a household has a major impact on the social exclusion of a person. The work intensity of households is currently being monitored in Europe mainly for purposes of identifying those people or households that are excluded from the labour market. The households’ work intensity directly affects the inclusion or exclusion from the labour market, which is one of the three social exclusion dimensions. Moreover, it also, as confirmed by several studies, fundamentally affects the other two dimensions of social exclusion, namely income poverty and material deprivation. The aim of the paper was to assess which factors in interaction with the economic activity status of a person significantly affect the household’s work intensity and, depending on these factors, to estimate the household’s work intensity. For this purpose, the general linear model and the associated analysis of marginal means and the contrast analysis were used...
Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT ..., Oct 24, 2021
The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challeng... more The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challenges posed by the introduction of Big Data in enterprises allows for a more accurate reflection of the internal and external environmental stimuli. Intuition ceases to be present in the decision-making process, and decision-making becomes strictly data-based. Thus, the precondition for data-based decision-making is relevant data in digital form, resulting from data processing. Datafication is the process by which subjects, objects and procedures are transformed into digital data. Only after data collection can other natural steps occur to acquire knowledge to improve the company's results if we move in the industry's functioning context. The task of finding a set of attributes (selecting attributes from a set of available attributes) so that a suitable alternative can be determined in its decision-making is analogous to the task of classification. Decision trees are suitable for solving such a task. We verified the proposed method in the case of logistics tasks. The analysis subject was tasks from logistics and 80 well-described quantitative methods used in logistics to solve them. The result of the analysis is a matrix (table), in which the rows contain the values of individual attributes defining a specific logistic task. The columns contain the values of the given attribute for different tasks. We used Incremental Wrapper Subset Selection IWSS package Weka 3.8.4 to select attributes. The resulting classification model is suitable for use in DSS. The analysis of logistics tasks and the subsequent design of a classification model made it possible to reveal the contours of the relationship between the characteristics of a logistics problem explicitly expressed through a set of attributes and the classes of methods used to solve them.
ABSTRACT Paper describes results of research realized in frame of e- learning implementation. It ... more ABSTRACT Paper describes results of research realized in frame of e- learning implementation. It deals with system for management of educational process (Learning Management System) implemented within the Faculty of education TU and its functionalities.
Central-European Journal of New Technologies in Research, Education and Practice
The presented research had two primary goals. The first goal was to determine students' attitude ... more The presented research had two primary goals. The first goal was to determine students' attitude to lectures and exercises conducted through the MS Teams application. Students' attitudes to online teaching were identified by the students' activity within the subject Business Processes Modeling and students' opinions on the acquired knowledge's usability and applicability. Another goal of the research was to determine whether gender influences the perception of online teaching by students. The obtained results indicate that the MS Teams application lectures are more acceptable for students than face-to-face lectures. Also, in such a lecture, students are more active, more often asking the teacher questions. Surprisingly, MS Teams exercises are not considered more useful by students than face-toface exercises. The results further showed that women assigned lower values to most factors than men. The results of the research predict the influence of gender on students' attitudes to online teaching. Additional, It would be necessary to determine whether the difference between men and women's average values is statistically significant. This difference can be verified in a larger group of respondents. Therefore, we plan to continue the research.
Prispevok opisuje navrh riesenia problemu efektivneho využitia testovania s podporou technologii ... more Prispevok opisuje navrh riesenia problemu efektivneho využitia testovania s podporou technologii vo vyucovani. Je to sucasť komplexneho riesenia obsahujuceho navrh modelu vyucovania, ktoreho sucasťou je preverovanie vedomosti s podporou technologii, overenie modelu implementovanim vo vybraných pilotných predmetoch, nasledna uprava na zaklade výsledkov experimentu, vypracovanie odporucani a aplikacia v ďalsich predmetoch studia na MTF STU v Trnave. Sucasťou modelu vyucovania su databazy uloh a testy z uciva pilotných predmetov studia. Ocakavaným výsledkom celeho projektu je zvýsenie kvality poskytovaneho vzdelavania preverovanim vedomosti prostrednictvom exaktneho merania a vyhodnocovania, standardizovanie urovne vedomosti studentov, ako aj objektivizacia kontrolnej casti vyucovacieho procesu.
Student’s assessment is an important part of actual learning process. Many e-learning experts and... more Student’s assessment is an important part of actual learning process. Many e-learning experts and educational technologists have emphasized that e-assessment can play a major role in improving the quality of student learning experiences, particularly in higher education. Acceptability is a required quality for a sound e-assessment. However, there still seems to be a need for investigating what students think and feel about this type of assessment. Presented research had two principal aims. The first objective of the research was to find whether there is a correlation between the studied variables (a type of the study program, gender, type of secondary school completed) and attitudes of students towards the Mathematics I course. The attitudes of students towards the mathematics were identified through students’ engagement in the course, and the students ́ opinions on applicability and the difficulty of the mathematics. Another aim of the research was to determine whether the studied ...
Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT, 2021
Almost every Android user application has some kind of user interface. Android programmers who cr... more Almost every Android user application has some kind of user interface. Android programmers who create Xamarin.Forms applications and who uses the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment to do so can create user interfaces in the XAML (the Extensible Application Markup Language) or in the C# programming language. This paper deals with a comparison of creating this user interface by the first and the second way. We demonstrate the differences in the creation of Android application user interfaces in XAML and in C# by way of using two of our Android applications which were created by the Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise, which work as text editors with the ability to store text to disc, and have user interfaces that are visually identical. However, the user interface of the first Android application was created in XAML with a C# support code, whereas the user interface of the second Android application was created entirely in C#. While comparing the source codes of the u...
Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT, 2021
The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challeng... more The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challenges posed by the introduction of Big Data in enterprises allows for a more accurate reflection of the internal and external environmental stimuli. Intuition ceases to be present in the decision-making process, and decision-making becomes strictly data-based. Thus, the precondition for data-based decision-making is relevant data in digital form, resulting from data processing. Datafication is the process by which subjects, objects and procedures are transformed into digital data. Only after data collection can other natural steps occur to acquire knowledge to improve the company's results if we move in the industry's functioning context. The task of finding a set of attributes (selecting attributes from a set of available attributes) so that a suitable alternative can be determined in its decision-making is analogous to the task of classification. Decision trees are suitable for so...
In this paper, a decision support system for operation scheduling with the name Integrated Schedu... more In this paper, a decision support system for operation scheduling with the name Integrated Scheduling System (lSS) is presented. The ISS is a tandem system which consists of two main subsystems: RAPO and ESPRA The RAPO subsystem is responsible for schedule generation and is based on the deterministic discrete-event simulation. A newly developed algorithm which speeded up schedule preparation has been built into RAPO. The ESPRA subsystem is an expert system that selects the most promising scheduling strategies for further use in RAPO. The inference engine of ESPRA is based on a method which optimises the solution process for any rule-based backward-chaining diagnostic system.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2017
The key difference between testing a small and a larger group of students is typically the imposs... more The key difference between testing a small and a larger group of students is typically the impossibility to use an e-assessment interface for a very large group of students in one room, especially in mathematics courses. Traditional testing causes overloading of the teacher when evaluating students´ results, and delay in releasing of the results. Moreover, the detailed results and test content are not directly stored in the database for further evaluation, which is a condition for optimization of learning environment. To overcome these problems, new teaching model along with method of assessment with enhanced software support was designed. Experimental data collected during three experimental academic years were compared to traditional assessment data to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed solutions. Results have proved that the overall productivity was significantly increased – more than eleven times without compromising quality. Internal dependencies among parameters of the au...
For the purpose of clarity and consistency, the term e-learning is used throughout the paper to r... more For the purpose of clarity and consistency, the term e-learning is used throughout the paper to refer to technology-enhanced learning. This paper describes selected aspects of the implementation model, which aims at the improvement and complex assurance of quality and cost efficiency in the context of e-learning. Within the described project, a complex quality assurance method, based on a model for quality assessment of e-learning-ELQ, has been proposed and verified. A modified Kirkpatrick Evaluating Four Level Model has been used for evaluation of quality of blended learning. After implementation of described models, experimental data has been collected and analyzed. These will drive the direction for future improvements.
This paper deals with the efficiency of blended learning in selected courses, within the mathemat... more This paper deals with the efficiency of blended learning in selected courses, within the mathematics and computer science curriculum at Trnava University, Faculty of Education. The experiment, as part of a quality project, lasted for two years, when the subjects were taught by a combination of e-learning and traditional method. The complex solution covers a model of blended teaching, which includes the on-line learning environment, assessment with the support of technology, verification of the model by implementation in selected courses, adaptation of the teaching model and learning environments based on the results of experiments, as well as development of recommendations and application for other subjects of study at Trnava University in Trnava. We present a comparison of the results of pre-and final tests in both years for three selected courses, as well as the comparison of students' overall performance, keeping in mind the improvement of teaching efficiency and assurance of quality.
This article describes the part of the solution of effective assessment with the support of techn... more This article describes the part of the solution of effective assessment with the support of technology. It is a part of a complex solution containing model of teaching, which includes the assessment with the support of technology, verification of the model by implementing in selected mathematics courses, adaptation of teaching model based on the results of the experiments, and development of recommendations and application for other subjects of study at the
The paper presents a state-of-the-art project that is being carried at Trnava University. The mai... more The paper presents a state-of-the-art project that is being carried at Trnava University. The main goal of the project focuses on the complex quality assurance and continual improvement of education at Trnava University. For evaluation of quality of blended learning a Kirkpatrick Evaluating Four Level Model has been selected. However original Kirkpatrick model has turned out as not fully appropriate for use in the university environment. Therefore we modified it. This paper describes the way Kirkpatrick model has been adapted as well as sample of partial results gained during the project course.
Not only unemployment itself but also the reduced work intensity of a household has a major impac... more Not only unemployment itself but also the reduced work intensity of a household has a major impact on the social exclusion of a person. The work intensity of households is currently being monitored in Europe mainly for purposes of identifying those people or households that are excluded from the labour market. The households’ work intensity directly affects the inclusion or exclusion from the labour market, which is one of the three social exclusion dimensions. Moreover, it also, as confirmed by several studies, fundamentally affects the other two dimensions of social exclusion, namely income poverty and material deprivation. The aim of the paper was to assess which factors in interaction with the economic activity status of a person significantly affect the household’s work intensity and, depending on these factors, to estimate the household’s work intensity. For this purpose, the general linear model and the associated analysis of marginal means and the contrast analysis were used...
Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT ..., Oct 24, 2021
The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challeng... more The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challenges posed by the introduction of Big Data in enterprises allows for a more accurate reflection of the internal and external environmental stimuli. Intuition ceases to be present in the decision-making process, and decision-making becomes strictly data-based. Thus, the precondition for data-based decision-making is relevant data in digital form, resulting from data processing. Datafication is the process by which subjects, objects and procedures are transformed into digital data. Only after data collection can other natural steps occur to acquire knowledge to improve the company's results if we move in the industry's functioning context. The task of finding a set of attributes (selecting attributes from a set of available attributes) so that a suitable alternative can be determined in its decision-making is analogous to the task of classification. Decision trees are suitable for solving such a task. We verified the proposed method in the case of logistics tasks. The analysis subject was tasks from logistics and 80 well-described quantitative methods used in logistics to solve them. The result of the analysis is a matrix (table), in which the rows contain the values of individual attributes defining a specific logistic task. The columns contain the values of the given attribute for different tasks. We used Incremental Wrapper Subset Selection IWSS package Weka 3.8.4 to select attributes. The resulting classification model is suitable for use in DSS. The analysis of logistics tasks and the subsequent design of a classification model made it possible to reveal the contours of the relationship between the characteristics of a logistics problem explicitly expressed through a set of attributes and the classes of methods used to solve them.
ABSTRACT Paper describes results of research realized in frame of e- learning implementation. It ... more ABSTRACT Paper describes results of research realized in frame of e- learning implementation. It deals with system for management of educational process (Learning Management System) implemented within the Faculty of education TU and its functionalities.
Central-European Journal of New Technologies in Research, Education and Practice
The presented research had two primary goals. The first goal was to determine students' attitude ... more The presented research had two primary goals. The first goal was to determine students' attitude to lectures and exercises conducted through the MS Teams application. Students' attitudes to online teaching were identified by the students' activity within the subject Business Processes Modeling and students' opinions on the acquired knowledge's usability and applicability. Another goal of the research was to determine whether gender influences the perception of online teaching by students. The obtained results indicate that the MS Teams application lectures are more acceptable for students than face-to-face lectures. Also, in such a lecture, students are more active, more often asking the teacher questions. Surprisingly, MS Teams exercises are not considered more useful by students than face-toface exercises. The results further showed that women assigned lower values to most factors than men. The results of the research predict the influence of gender on students' attitudes to online teaching. Additional, It would be necessary to determine whether the difference between men and women's average values is statistically significant. This difference can be verified in a larger group of respondents. Therefore, we plan to continue the research.
Prispevok opisuje navrh riesenia problemu efektivneho využitia testovania s podporou technologii ... more Prispevok opisuje navrh riesenia problemu efektivneho využitia testovania s podporou technologii vo vyucovani. Je to sucasť komplexneho riesenia obsahujuceho navrh modelu vyucovania, ktoreho sucasťou je preverovanie vedomosti s podporou technologii, overenie modelu implementovanim vo vybraných pilotných predmetoch, nasledna uprava na zaklade výsledkov experimentu, vypracovanie odporucani a aplikacia v ďalsich predmetoch studia na MTF STU v Trnave. Sucasťou modelu vyucovania su databazy uloh a testy z uciva pilotných predmetov studia. Ocakavaným výsledkom celeho projektu je zvýsenie kvality poskytovaneho vzdelavania preverovanim vedomosti prostrednictvom exaktneho merania a vyhodnocovania, standardizovanie urovne vedomosti studentov, ako aj objektivizacia kontrolnej casti vyucovacieho procesu.
Student’s assessment is an important part of actual learning process. Many e-learning experts and... more Student’s assessment is an important part of actual learning process. Many e-learning experts and educational technologists have emphasized that e-assessment can play a major role in improving the quality of student learning experiences, particularly in higher education. Acceptability is a required quality for a sound e-assessment. However, there still seems to be a need for investigating what students think and feel about this type of assessment. Presented research had two principal aims. The first objective of the research was to find whether there is a correlation between the studied variables (a type of the study program, gender, type of secondary school completed) and attitudes of students towards the Mathematics I course. The attitudes of students towards the mathematics were identified through students’ engagement in the course, and the students ́ opinions on applicability and the difficulty of the mathematics. Another aim of the research was to determine whether the studied ...
Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT, 2021
Almost every Android user application has some kind of user interface. Android programmers who cr... more Almost every Android user application has some kind of user interface. Android programmers who create Xamarin.Forms applications and who uses the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment to do so can create user interfaces in the XAML (the Extensible Application Markup Language) or in the C# programming language. This paper deals with a comparison of creating this user interface by the first and the second way. We demonstrate the differences in the creation of Android application user interfaces in XAML and in C# by way of using two of our Android applications which were created by the Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise, which work as text editors with the ability to store text to disc, and have user interfaces that are visually identical. However, the user interface of the first Android application was created in XAML with a C# support code, whereas the user interface of the second Android application was created entirely in C#. While comparing the source codes of the u...
Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT, 2021
The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challeng... more The digital transformation of business in the light of opportunities and focusing on the challenges posed by the introduction of Big Data in enterprises allows for a more accurate reflection of the internal and external environmental stimuli. Intuition ceases to be present in the decision-making process, and decision-making becomes strictly data-based. Thus, the precondition for data-based decision-making is relevant data in digital form, resulting from data processing. Datafication is the process by which subjects, objects and procedures are transformed into digital data. Only after data collection can other natural steps occur to acquire knowledge to improve the company's results if we move in the industry's functioning context. The task of finding a set of attributes (selecting attributes from a set of available attributes) so that a suitable alternative can be determined in its decision-making is analogous to the task of classification. Decision trees are suitable for so...
In this paper, a decision support system for operation scheduling with the name Integrated Schedu... more In this paper, a decision support system for operation scheduling with the name Integrated Scheduling System (lSS) is presented. The ISS is a tandem system which consists of two main subsystems: RAPO and ESPRA The RAPO subsystem is responsible for schedule generation and is based on the deterministic discrete-event simulation. A newly developed algorithm which speeded up schedule preparation has been built into RAPO. The ESPRA subsystem is an expert system that selects the most promising scheduling strategies for further use in RAPO. The inference engine of ESPRA is based on a method which optimises the solution process for any rule-based backward-chaining diagnostic system.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2017
The key difference between testing a small and a larger group of students is typically the imposs... more The key difference between testing a small and a larger group of students is typically the impossibility to use an e-assessment interface for a very large group of students in one room, especially in mathematics courses. Traditional testing causes overloading of the teacher when evaluating students´ results, and delay in releasing of the results. Moreover, the detailed results and test content are not directly stored in the database for further evaluation, which is a condition for optimization of learning environment. To overcome these problems, new teaching model along with method of assessment with enhanced software support was designed. Experimental data collected during three experimental academic years were compared to traditional assessment data to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed solutions. Results have proved that the overall productivity was significantly increased – more than eleven times without compromising quality. Internal dependencies among parameters of the au...
For the purpose of clarity and consistency, the term e-learning is used throughout the paper to r... more For the purpose of clarity and consistency, the term e-learning is used throughout the paper to refer to technology-enhanced learning. This paper describes selected aspects of the implementation model, which aims at the improvement and complex assurance of quality and cost efficiency in the context of e-learning. Within the described project, a complex quality assurance method, based on a model for quality assessment of e-learning-ELQ, has been proposed and verified. A modified Kirkpatrick Evaluating Four Level Model has been used for evaluation of quality of blended learning. After implementation of described models, experimental data has been collected and analyzed. These will drive the direction for future improvements.
This paper deals with the efficiency of blended learning in selected courses, within the mathemat... more This paper deals with the efficiency of blended learning in selected courses, within the mathematics and computer science curriculum at Trnava University, Faculty of Education. The experiment, as part of a quality project, lasted for two years, when the subjects were taught by a combination of e-learning and traditional method. The complex solution covers a model of blended teaching, which includes the on-line learning environment, assessment with the support of technology, verification of the model by implementation in selected courses, adaptation of the teaching model and learning environments based on the results of experiments, as well as development of recommendations and application for other subjects of study at Trnava University in Trnava. We present a comparison of the results of pre-and final tests in both years for three selected courses, as well as the comparison of students' overall performance, keeping in mind the improvement of teaching efficiency and assurance of quality.
This article describes the part of the solution of effective assessment with the support of techn... more This article describes the part of the solution of effective assessment with the support of technology. It is a part of a complex solution containing model of teaching, which includes the assessment with the support of technology, verification of the model by implementing in selected mathematics courses, adaptation of teaching model based on the results of the experiments, and development of recommendations and application for other subjects of study at the
The paper presents a state-of-the-art project that is being carried at Trnava University. The mai... more The paper presents a state-of-the-art project that is being carried at Trnava University. The main goal of the project focuses on the complex quality assurance and continual improvement of education at Trnava University. For evaluation of quality of blended learning a Kirkpatrick Evaluating Four Level Model has been selected. However original Kirkpatrick model has turned out as not fully appropriate for use in the university environment. Therefore we modified it. This paper describes the way Kirkpatrick model has been adapted as well as sample of partial results gained during the project course.
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