COMPARISON OF THE TEST VARIANTS IN ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS

Authors

  • Jindřich Klůfa University of Economics, Prague

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2016.090404

Keywords:

Entrance examinations, test variants, mathematics, statistical methods

Abstract

The paper contains an analysis of the differences of number of points in the test in mathematics between test variants, which were used in the entrance examinations at the Faculty of Business Administration at University of Economics in Prague in 2015. The differences may arise due to the varying difficulty of variants for students, but also because of the different level of knowledge of students who write these variants. This problem we shall study in present paper. The aim of this paper is to study dependence of the results of entrance examinations in mathematics on test variants. The results obtained will be used for further improvement of the admission process at University of Economics.

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Vol 9 No 4 (2016)

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2016-12-15

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Klůfa, J. (2016) ’COMPARISON OF THE TEST VARIANTS IN ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS’, Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 111–116. https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2016.090404

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Vol. 9 No. 4 (2016)

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