1. Strengthening and sustainability of collaboration between partner institutions – a survey project
Project PLATSUM
Josef Rebenda, CEITEC BUT
Rhodes

2. Partners

3. Objectives Strengthen collaboration on all levels
Increase publicity of Norway Grants
How to do it?
Organize joint research activities
Prepare joint publications

4. Idea
Can personality, learning approach and/or teaching style affect students’ results?
Prepare a survey based on experience from Norway
Collect data from students and analyze it

5. Time plan Spring semester 2016 – preparation of the survey
May and August 2016 – data collection
June - August 2016 – data analysis
September 2016 – summary of results, presentation

6. Implementation A lot of experience:
Design of the survey took more time than expected
Translations took more time than planned
Not easy to collect enough data (promotion needed)
Participants enjoyed the collaboration

7. Results (CZ)
Agree with previous studies in Norway (H. Brovold, S. Saebo)
Some personality types are disfavored (Feeling, Extroverts)
Some personality types prefer certain learning strategies (Introverts, Sensing x Extroverts, iNtuitive, and Feeling x Thinking)
Some personality types attend less to lecture and exercises (Perceiving, Feeling)

8. What next? Mathematics and Statistics Support Centres
Flipped classrooms
More flexible structure of the courses and study programmes
Other innovations?

9. Norway Grants - summary
Mathematical Education Through Modelling Authentic Situations - METMAS
Brno University of Technology - Mobility of Academic Staff (BUT-MAS)
Personality, learning approaches and teaching styles in undergraduate mathematics - PLATSUM
Mathematics and Statistics Support Centre (MSSC) (Masaryk University)

10. Questions?
Thank you very much for your attention!