1. Ss Cyril and Methodius University Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Skopje Analysis of the students’ score in the first year at FEEIT compared to their score in high school XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA, NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 Mile Stankovski, Hristina Spasevska, Aleksandar Ristevski, Dimitar Taskovski

2. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 Outline  Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje & Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT  Final examinations of the high school students  Faculty grades / secondary school scores Secondary school grades, Graduation exam, External testing  Faculty grades / graduation exam: Mathematics 1, Physics 1, Programing and Algorithms

3. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje  Founded in 1949  23 Faculties  10 Institutes  11 Associate Members  50.000 students  700 foreign students  2.700 academic staff  126.000 graduated students  5.300 Master’s degree  3.300 PhD degree

4. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT

5. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 FINAL EXAMINATIONS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STATE GRADUATION EXAM High school score – 60% Graduation exam score – 40% After 2013 STATE GRADUATION EXAM + EXTERNAL EXAMINATION High school score – 60% External testing on 2 courses randomly selected every year Graduation exam score – 40% ENTRY EXAMINATION High school score – 50% Entry examination score – 50% Until 2008 2008 - 2013

6. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 STATE GRADUATION EXAM OBLIGATORY EXTERNAL COURSE 2 OPTIONAL EXTERNAL COURSES INTERNAL COURSE PROJECT WORK Mother tongue Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish Mathematics, English, Physics, Philosophy and Aesthetics All courses with more than 100 classes/year All courses One day examination in entry country evaluated by a Central State Commission One day examination in entry country evaluated by a Central State Commission Examination is determinate and evaluated by Course Teacher in the School Examination is determinate and evaluated by Course Teacher in the School

7. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 STATE EXTERNAL TESTING 2 COURSES PER YEAR − Randomly chosen courses − Electronic examination − Multiple-choice questions / 4 offered answers EXAMINATION & EVALUATION − One day examination in entry country − Evaluated by a Central State Commission EXTERNAL TESTING SCORES − External testing grades are included in Year’ Certificate − The student can have grade 1 in the Year’ Certificate from external testing

8. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 STUDENTS TARGET IN THE ANALYSIS NUMBER OF STUDENTS 283 in first semester of 2014/15 academic year − Power Engineering, Automation and Renewable Energy Sources − Power Systems − Power Engineering and Management − Computer System Engineering, Automatics and Robotics − Computer Technologies and Engineering − Computer Hardware Engineering and Electronics − Telecommunication and Information Engineering STUDY PROGRAMMES STUDENTS’ SCORE FROM SECONDARY SCHOOL − 267 students have graduated as EXCELLENT − 11 students have graduated as VERY GOOD − 5 students have graduated as GOOD

9. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 EXTERNAL TESTING / GRADUATION EXAM Distribution of the students’ average grade at the graduation exam depending on the external testing grade

10. FACULTY GRADES / SECONDARY SCHOOL SCORES Better correlation on the results in the first semester have: 1.Secondary school grade 2.External testing grade 3.Graduation exam grade

11. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 EXTERNAL TESTING / GRADUATION EXAM Distribution of the students’ average grades on the graduation exam INTERNAL COURSE

12. FACULTY GRADES / GRADUATION EXAM Best results in the first semester have students on course: 1.Physics 1 2.Programing and Algorithms 3.Mathematics 1

13. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 Conclusion Teachers in the first year at FEEIT will have the possibilities to:  Review the relationship between the state graduation exam grades for a particular course and grades at FEEIT for the corresponding course  Adjust lectures regarding the various knowledge that students possess for a particular course, despite that their high school grades are identical Help to future students at FEEIT to choose graduation courses that would allow them to upgrade their knowledge in order to facilitate passing the exams in the first year. Taking into account that FEEIT has enrolled excellent high school students, the analysis will contribute to establishing stable and sustainable concepts for evaluating high school students on a national level. 1 2 3

14. XXII Skup TRENDOVI RAZVOJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE U NASTAVI - TREND 2016 ■ Zlatibor ■ 16-19/02/2016 Acknowledgement Students Dejan Pejovski and Marija Milosavleva for data collection and processing !