THE CHANGING TRENDS IN THE SUBJECT OF MATHEMATICS STUDIES PROGRAM AND STUDENT KNOWLEDGE
Journal Title: Role of Higher Education Institutions in Society: Challenges, Tendencies and Perspectives - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Consistent implementation of the Lithuanian education reform, today stressed the need to develop competencies necessary for humans, providing opportunities for meaningful participation in society and the profession, to respond positively to a rapidly changing global challenges and constantly learning. Searching for answers on how to improve mathematics instruction given subject, and hence the study process, began to go into mathematics education course development process and the possible changes in the program, which is "dictated by" not only a teacher and student roles change, but also the teaching-learning quality assurance. If the quality of teaching is largely dependent on teacher competence, the quality of learning associated with the study's success, which in turn may depend on the intellectual, technical preparation, ability, experience, self-employment, so the quality of education to a large extent depends on the student. The article discussed the mathematics program, which has been improved, in addition to a new technological direction of study regulations, but also the willingness and ability of students to study mathematics course. Research object - change of the mathematics curicculum. The aim - to assess the trends of change in mathematics curriculum and student knowledge. The paper applied the following methods: literature and document analysis, a diagnostic test, written survey. Results of surveys processed with SPSS software. The results are presented in tables, figures, text. Received in the following conclusions: hange the subject of Mathematics program created preconditions not only mathematics course content changes, but also created new opportunities for teaching and learning mathematics, diagnostic math test allows to evaluate not only student's knowledge, but also to select the following teaching and learning methods that enable to achieve set goals in the study program, application of information technology makes it possible to tackle issues such as the content of the study module replacement, rapid presentation of the learning outcomes, a positive approach to study subject creates preconditions more qualitative work.
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Vilma Morkūnienė
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