COMPARISON OF THE FIRST YEAR LEARNING OUTCOMES OF DUAL AND NONDUAL STUDENTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE INPUT COMPETENCE SURVEY

Abstract

The number of students taking part in, and the courses involved in dual education have multiplied since the dual education was introduced. At our university, in the last seven years, some hundreds of students have participated in the training based on the German model, implemented in cooperation with partner companies. Based on our assumptions at the beginning of the dual training and the experiences accumulated during the training we assume that in general, more motivated students, the ones who are eager to learn and meet the requirements chose this form of education. The double filter (university and company) makes it possible to choose the best students. The strong selection and the stricter education criteria set by the form of the training (the required progress according to the sample curriculum) results in the students’ achievements which are significantly better than the non-dual students’ results. Thanks to the input surveys regarding the dual and non-dual students which have been conducted since 2010 in our institutions, it is possible to measure the competence of dual and non-dual students at the beginning of the training, and we can also get information about the differences between the two groups and compare the achievements of dual students with the non-dual students. This examination gives a chance to examine how successful the training was for the dual students. The sample of our research consisted of the first year BSc full time students (n = 1,341). We applied the sample adjustment according to the points of the entrance tests when we analysed the achievements of the different training systems. In our presentation, we demonstrate the main areas of the competence survey, the results reached in those areas, the differences between the achievements in those areas, the impact of the input results on the success of learning (the impact of the differences on the results of the first year) in case of dual and non-dual students. We highlight those areas which significantly influence the study results regardless of training forms.