Abstract
With the increase in the number of university students, the number of those who do not finish successfully the tertiary education is also increasing. The article uses a specific data source and analyses only a part of the group of unsuccessful students who re-enroll. This is a specific group of students - they did not finish the tertiary study in the past, but after some time they returned to education. The aim of the paper is to find significant factors that influence the decision whether the student changes the studied school or field of study. Factors will be searched using decision trees and binary logistic regression. Both methods were significant for gender and the fact that a student is studying his preferred university. Logistic regression adds to the student's health disadvantage. The data were obtained from the EUROSTUDENT survey, which was held in the Czech Republic in 2016 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The results can be used to identify a risky candidate or student at the beginning of tertiary education.
Highlights
The phenomenon of recent years is the growth of the universityeducated population in the Czech Republic
The data were obtained from the EUROSTUDENT survey, which was held in the Czech Republic in 2016 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
We focus on a specific group of students who have re-enrolled their studies again when the previous studies were unsuccessful
Summary
The phenomenon of recent years is the growth of the universityeducated population in the Czech Republic. Together with the interest in tertiary education, there is a growing number of those who fail to complete university studies. This topic is about the Czech Republic and about other EU countries. In order to find statistically significant factors of unsuccessful study in the past, we use following statistical methods: binary logistic regression and decision trees - the CART (Classification And Regression Trees) method. The results of both methods are compared and confronted with conclusions from foreign and Czech studies. The results may help to reduce the proportion of unsuccessful students, which could be interesting for a policy of tertiary education, as well as for study advisers of individual universities and faculties
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