APPLYING OF THE COMPONENT ANALYSES IN COMBINATION WITH NONPARAMETRIC CRITERIA FOR STATISTICAL PROCESSING OF THE RESULTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2007, Vol 2, Issue 9
Abstract
The main objective of the present study is the statistical processing of the results of the examination how effective was the integration of the introductory block into the module structure of physical and colloidal chemistry course. To get reliable results of the level of mathematical material mastering the control test which consists of the fundamental elements of the mathematical processing the results of chemical ex-periments was carried out. The students of pharmaceutical department from Kuban State Medical Uni-versity as well as the students of four departments of two other universities and one academy took part in this experiment. The outcome variable was completeness of student’s answers. The results of the research were treated by component analyses. Nonparametric criteria were used for statistical estimation. The number of tested students in a single group were from 27 up to 60. The statistical results processing of empirical research proves the efficiency of introduction of mathematical block into module structure of the physical and colloidal chemistry course.
Authors and Affiliations
Balachevskaya, O, Sheldeshov, N, Litvinova, Т
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