Analyzing students’ academic success in pre-requisite course chains: a case study in Turkey

• Autores: Murat Karakaya, Meltem Eryilmaz, Ulas Ceyhan
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 34, no. 2, 2018, págs. 364-370
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There are several principles which have been accepted as approaches to successful curriculum development. In spite of thedifferences in the proposed sequencing of topics, all approaches basically depend on the pre-requisite chains to implementtheir educational approach in the curriculum development for specifying the order of the subjects. In this research, two pre-requisite chains representing two different curriculum development approaches are taken into consideration in a casestudy. The first research question considered is whether academic success in a follow-up course is positively related tosuccess attained in the pre-requisite course. The second one is whether or not the selected curriculum developmentapproach for deciding the chains has a significant impact on the academic success relationships between a pre-requisite andits follow-up course. To answer these questions, course data of 441 undergraduate students who graduated from the AtilimUniversity between Fall 2001 and Spring 2015 semesters were collected and analyzed. The results indicate that the succeslevels gained in a pre-requisite and its follow-up course are corelated. Moreover, different cirriculum development methodscan affect this corelation. Thus, cirriculum developers should consider appropriate approaches to improve student successfor deciding chaining courses and their contents.