The comparison of the computer science learning habits of the students on the Obuda University in the last five years

The aim of this research is to analyse the learning habit of the undergraduate mechanical engineering students in the second semester and compare it within the last five years. My personal experience shows the big part of the students until the present period do not have learned the teaching material week in week out and just have visited the presentations or simply stayed at home. The situation is unfortunately the same by other subjects too at the university and the colleagues have the same experience from other universities and colleges in Hungary. The learning habit of the undergraduate mechanical engineering students could be followed and analysed if we can see the details of the downloading of the teaching materials. The analysing of the data made possible to draw conclusions regarding the learning habits of undergraduate mechanical engineering students. I analysed the saved data of downloads in the last five years to see the changing of the learning habits of the students if is it recognisable. We can draw the inference on learning habits after analysing the distribution of downloads before the test. The result of the analysing shows the students downloaded the teaching material on the day of test or the previous day. It means these students did not have enough time to read, understand and learn the teaching material before the test and these habits do not have changed in the last five years. The earlier analysing showed the situation is the same in the first semester and the undergraduate mechanical engineering students did not recognise the advantage of the learning earlier before the test. I have found strong correlation between the days before the test and the number of downloads of teaching material. It needs a didactical method to motivate the students to download the teaching material earlier and read it to pass the tests in higher percentage because this learning habit has influence on the results of the successful exams too.

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