University Of Peloponnese Research Articles

Challenges and Trends in Student Evaluation of Teaching: Analysis of SET Data from the University of Peloponnese

This study examines the effectiveness of Student Evaluations of Teaching at the University of Peloponnese, which has systematically collected anonymous evaluations since 2015. The analysis focused on participation rates, average scores, and the correlation between student evaluations and their academic performance. Participation rates were notably low, averaging 14.63%, with postgraduate students showing higher rates (27.33%) than undergraduates (10.77%). The average SET scores were moderately high, with postgraduates rating their courses slightly better (M = 4.137) than undergraduates (M = 3.899). A weak positive correlation was found between course grades and evaluations among undergraduates, whereas no significant correlation was observed for postgraduates. These findings highlight challenges in using SETs as reliable measures of teaching effectiveness and suggest the need for improved participation and more comprehensive evaluation methods. The results provide insights into enhancing assessment practices and contribute to the broader discourse on the validity of student evaluations in higher education.

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All papers published in this volume have been reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Single Anonymous• Conference submission management system: Morressier• Number of submissions received: 309• Number of submissions sent for review: 304• Number of submissions accepted: 167• Acceptance Rate (Submissions Accepted / Submissions Received × 100): 54• Average number of reviews per paper: 1.23• Total number of reviewers involved: 36• Contact person for queries: Name: Dimitrios Vlachos Email: dvlachos@uop.gr Affiliation: University of Peloponnese, Greece

NEUTROSOPHIC ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Formulation of the problem. Assessment is an important component of the teaching process, because it helps the instructor to determine the student mistakes and to improve their performance by adapting suitably his/her teaching methods. In this work we investigate the problem of evaluating the student overall performance, when the teacher is not sure about the accuracy of the grades assigned to them. This happens, either because the teacher had not enough time to assess properly the students’ mathematical skills, or because, in case of a written examination/test, some students did not present clearly or did not justified properly their answers.
 Materials and methods. Fuzzy assessment methods using neutrosophic sets and grey numbers, as well as the calculation of the Grade Point Average (GPA) index are used in this work for the assessment of a student class mean performance, quality performance, and overall performance when the teacher has doubts about the grades assigned to some students. 
 Results. The paper focuses on a classroom application designed for the assessment, with qualitative (linguistic) grades, of mathematical skills of the engineering students of two Departments of the School of Engineering of the Graduate Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Western Greece (University of Peloponnese) being at their first term of studies. The instructor was the same person for both Departments. The teaching methodology for the first Department (experimental group) involved a combined use of computers and classroom lectures, whereas for the second Department (control group) involved only lectures in the classical way on the board.
 Conclusions. The use of neutrosophic sets provides a useful tool for evaluating the student overall performance when the teacher has doubts about the accuracy of the grades assigned to them. The outcomes of the classroom application demonstrated a superiority of the experimental group. This superiority, however, was significant with respect to its mean and overall performance (neutrosophic assessment), but rather negligible with respect to its quality performance. This gives a strong indication that the use of computers in the teaching process helps more the mediocre and weak students and not so much the good students.

Evaluating the learning environment of a cross-institutional postgraduate programme in entrepreneurship

This article evaluates the learning environment of a joint distance learning postgraduate programme in entrepreneurship between the University of Peloponnese and the Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese in Greece. Following the Illeris’ theory for learning, factors from the content, incentives and environment learning dimensions are evaluated by the 87 alumni of the programme. The analysis indicates which components in each dimension prevailed and how the three dimensions are compared in the formulation of the educational setting. It appeared that significant drivers for participation and engagement with the programme emanated from modern social trends. The novelty of the method pertains to the adoption of elaborated learning theories in the assessment of entrepreneurship education. The pilot results of the present case offer the basis to enrich and implement the Illerian dimensions of learning in future entrepreneurship programmes.

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Smoking Habits among Greek University Students after the Financial Crisis

Background:University students worldwide seem to have increased rates of smoking, alcohol abuse, binge drinking episodes and harmful consumption trends, raising a serious public health issue. The aim of the present study was to investigate university students’ smoking habits and exposure to secondary smoke amid a financial crisis.Methods:The present descriptive, correlational analysis was conducted at the University of Peloponnese.Results:The average age of the sample (n=203) was 24.9 years (±7.6 years) with 36.0% of the participants (n=73) being postgraduate students. Some 51.2% (n=104) of the participants said they didn’t smoke and 46.3% (n=94, p=0.003) reported no secondary smoke exposure during the past week at home. The majority of the remainder initiated smoking at age 16-17 (48.5%, n=48), and 64.6% (n=42) said the financial crisis did not lead them to change their smoking habits.Conclusions:The majority of students support smoking ban laws in enclosed public spaces, but also their replies highlighted poor implementation on behalf of the state and the authorities. The financial crisis did not appear to have affected student smoking habits.

Methodological seminar “Mass culture, education and the perspective of individuality"”.

The Methodological seminar was conducted by the scientific journal “Philosophy of Education” (Institute of Higher Education, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine). The participants of the seminar were Prof. Panos Eliopoulos (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Lyudmyla Gorbunova, Mykhailo Boychenko, Olga Gomilko, Mariia Kultaieva, Volodymyr Kovtunets, Sergiy Kurbatov, Anna Laktionova, Tetiana Matusevych, Natalia Radionova, Iryna Stepanenko, Maya Trynyak and Viktor Zinchenko. On March 30, 2016, a methodological seminar was conducted at the Institute of Higher Education NAES of Ukraine. This seminar was devoted to the discussion of educational problems in the area of mass culture, and relative opportunities for the development of individuality. The report «Mass culture, education and the perspective of individuality» was made by Panos Eliopulos, professor of Peloponnese University, a member of journal’s «Філософія освіти. Philosophy of Education” editorial board. The scientists from the Institute of Higher Education, Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Skovoroda National Pedagogical University of Kharkiv participated in thisevent. Designated issues were observed primarily from the point of view of the Frankfurt School representatives, as well as representatives of modern critical philosophy of education and critical pedagogy. It was emphasized that T.Adorno’s ideas and ideas of other Frankfurt School members, which were developed in the middle of the last century, continue to be relevant in current socio-cultural contexts. The technical rationalism which became the rationalism of dominance in the context of technological civilization, could not provide the way toward the liberation of man and the development of his or her individuality. Market society with its instrumental rationality leads to homogenization and standardization of mass culture and as a result, we have a semi-education, leading to destruction of personality and social pathologies. The panelists agreed that semi-education reflects the crisis of ideals of education and training as far as a suspension of human emancipation process. Due to suspension of the creative process of a person formation, replacing it by the processes of stereotyping based on mimetic rationality, culture itself loses creative potential. The process of degradation of education and culture in the semi-education eventually leads to its destruction at theoretical level and the elaboration of the practice of anti-education. Only through returning of the individual and maintaining his or her social importance due to the tools of holistic education it is possible to overcome such stereotyping. For Frankfurt School members, and those who share their ideals, true education in its meta-theoretical sense becomes the important factor, contributing to the emancipation of society and individual. This idea is particularly important in the context of contemporary challenges and threats from instrumentalization of approaches to the process of transformation of the Ukrainian culture and education.

Academic Internship and Students’ Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece

<p>Internship is an educational activity which has the advantage of teaching students how to apply the knowledge and concepts they have acquired in the classroom thus achieving a thorough learning of the subject matter. The scope of this study is to examine the level of students’ satisfaction from the internship program provided by the Department of Sport Management, University of Peloponnese in Greece. Questionnaire analysis was performed from a sample of students who have completed their internship and evidence revealed that 60% of respondents were satisfied with the internship program and more than 65% believe that the experiences gained from the internship will be significant for their future employment. Overall, students perceived the internship program as a significant feature of the curriculum and a mechanism that enhances future career potential.</p>

Gender Differences and Achievement in Computer Science: A Case Study

This study investigates the relationship between gender and achievement in the various subjects of CS. For this reason, the degrees of all graduate students who enrolled from 2002 to 2008 at the Department of CS and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Greece were studied, with a focus on the courses classified into 2 divisions: “Computer Technology and Computer Systems” and “Software Systems”. The analysis of the data shows that: (a) male students have slightly better grades in most of the compulsory courses, (b) in elective courses, overall, there is no clear pattern, (c) some core hardware/ lab-based software courses are not selected by females, and (d) females perform slightly better in those courses which are chosen by the majority of them.

Economic growth as a proxy for environmental performance: Exploring the informational content of the environmental performance index

International Journal of Energy and StatisticsVol. 02, No. 03, pp. 151-168 (2014) No AccessEconomic growth as a proxy for environmental performance: Exploring the informational content of the environmental performance indexDimitrios D. Thomakos and Thomas A. AlexopoulosDimitrios D. ThomakosDepartment of Economics, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, GreeceCenter of Economic Analysis, ItalyProfessor at Department of Economics and Senior Rimini fellow at Center of Economic Analysis. Search for more papers by this author and Thomas A. AlexopoulosDepartment of Economics, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece Search for more papers by this author https://doi.org/10.1142/S2335680414500112Cited by:3 Next AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractEnvironmental considerations are on the table for over two centuries now, since then the global community has made significant steps to mitigate the problem. Over the recent past, comprehensive environmental indexes such as the EPI index have been created so as to assess a nation's environmental performance. This paper examines the relationship of EPI index and economic growth. Although there are already previous works considering the effects of EPI on GDP, there is not any previous research on the explanatory power of economic growth on EPI. Such a reverse causality analysis is important in order to assess informational content of EPI. The results of our analysis indicate a positive effect of GDP on EPI which becomes stronger when high income developed countries are selected and insignificant for middle income developing countries. Moreover when we examine the interval of time between 2005 and 2012, we find a decreasing positive effect on EPI, which is also cross-checked in the clear negative trend of the country-average correlation of EPI and growth rates after 1995. Finally we examine the relationship between average and cumulative real GDP growth rates and EPI 2012. These results confirm that countries with high level of economic growth rates have the lowest environmental performances according to EPI index and vice versa, as suggested by the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis.Keywords:Environmental performancereal GDPEPIcountry average correlationcountry clusters References A. J. Samimiet al., Advances in Environmental Biology 5(4), 655 (2011). Google ScholarA. H. Fakehi, S. Ahmadi and A. 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An analysis of the effect of regulation and business environment on installed power capacity of renewable sources of energy in the EU-15

The implementation of measures to promote renewable energy sources (RES) has shown to have a significant impact in reducing CO2 emissions and, at the same time, promotes technology substitution and changes in the energy production and consumption mix. In this paper, we look at RES regulation measures together with variables capturing economic freedom, business and investment freedom, difficulty of starting a business and cost of contract enforcement and look at assessing the effects of these on the development of new installations of RES. Our analysis shows that not only RES regulation is significant in promoting increased RES capacity but it does so in the presence of the correct signs of these other market variables: higher economic and investment freedom, less complicated procedures for starting up a business and lower cost of contract enforcement, all have a positive effect in installed RES capacity. Our results have significant policy implications as they point out that RES regulation and market initiatives go in tandem in promoting higher use of RES in energy production. These are separate channels with which policy makers can work to affect many positive spillovers that extend from higher investment activity, to energy innovation and lower emissions.

Course Selection in Computer Science: Gender Differences

This study focuses on the investigation of the course choices made by undergraduates of different gender in Computer Science (CS). For this purpose, the degrees of all graduates (89 graduates) from the CS and Technology Department at University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece, since its establishment were studied. The analysis of the data shows that: (a) the percentage of female graduates is lower than the percentage of male graduates, (b) higher percentage of girls choose courses that belong to the ‘Theoretical CS’ division, (c) higher percentage of boys choose courses that belong to the ‘Software Systems’ division, (d) girls seemed to not prefer programming ‘lab-based’ courses, (e) girls and boys chose equally courses from the ‘Computer Technology and Computer Systems’ division, but some of these courses are not selected by any of the girls, (f) more girls than boys choose ‘General Education’ courses, and (g) higher percentage of girls choose courses related to humanities and social sciences.

Serologic markers for HBV, HCV and HIV in immigrants visiting the Athens' polyclinic of ‘Doctors of the World – Greece’

G. Papadakis , N.A. Okoba , C. Nicolaou , F. Boufidou , A. Ioannidis , S. Bersimis , Doctors of the World e Greece, S. Chatzipanagiotou * Greek Delegation of Doctors of the World, Athens, Greece Department of Medical Biopathology, Eginition Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Greece Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

Preface

Mathematical Methods in the Applied SciencesVolume 30, Issue 14 p. 1609-1610 Preface Preface Klaus Gürlebeck, Klaus Gürlebeck Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Coudraystr. 13, D-99421 Weimar, GermanySearch for more papers by this authorTheodore Simos, Theodore Simos Department of Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Peloponnese, GR-22100 Tripolis, GreeceSearch for more papers by this author Klaus Gürlebeck, Klaus Gürlebeck Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Coudraystr. 13, D-99421 Weimar, GermanySearch for more papers by this authorTheodore Simos, Theodore Simos Department of Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Peloponnese, GR-22100 Tripolis, GreeceSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 April 2007 https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.856Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume30, Issue14Special Issue: Approximation, stability and error analysis25 September 2007Pages 1609-1610 RelatedInformation