Ružica Vuk
Biljana Vranković
Zoran Žitnik
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ODNOSI USPJEHA I STRUKTURE PRISTUPNIKA DRŽAVNE MATURE IZ GEOGRAFIJE 2010. GODINE I UPISANIH STUDENATA 2010. GODINE NA STUDIJSKE PROGRAME NA GEOGRAFSKOM ODSJEKU PMF-A SVEUČILIŠTA U ZAGREBU
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DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2014.3.225
UDC: 911:37.018.048(497.5Zagreb)“2010“Â
Abstract: Geography is within the Croatian State Graduation exam optional subject and the candidates’ exam achievement is one of the important preconditions for the faculty enrolment to the study programmes at the Faculty of Science - Department of Geography, University of Zagreb. In this paper the relations between success and structure of State Graduation candidates in Geography 2010 and the success in the six obligatory courses during the first two years of study of students enrolled in study programmes at the Department of Geography are analysed. The Geography State Graduation candidates’ structure is presented by the type of secondary school and school programme; gender; grade of the Geography State Graduation exam and enrolment in bachelor study of Geography as well as integrated master study of Geography and History.The structure of the students enrolled to other faculties and study programmes in Croatia, is also presented by the students who in 2010 achieved excellent and very good success on the Geography State Graduation exam. This research included 1104 of the 2010 Geography State Graduation candidates, 41 second year students of the bachelor study of Geography and 8 students of integrated master study of Geography and History. The 2010 Geography State Graduation candidates come mainly from the gymnasium school programmes and especially from general-programme gymnasiums, while the candidates from the vocational school programmes are mostly represented by the students of economics programme. Testing the significance of the differences shows that the students from the gymnasium programmes achieved significantly better results in the Geography State Graduation exam that the students from the vocational programmes and thus gained the higher rank while faculty enrolling. The students enrolled 2010 in Geography study programmes mostly completed gymnasium school programmes. From the total number of Geography State Graduation candidates whose exam was graded as excellent, 30% enrolled to the Geography study programmes, followed by 18.66% of students graded as very good and 3.96% of students graded as good. Even though the State Graduation exam success is one of the preconditions to faculty enrolment, it is not the factor which influences the primary choice of faculty. Testing the significance of the differences shows that the students from the gymnasium programmes who enrolled enrol in Geography study programmes achieved significantlybetter results in the Geography State Graduation exam that the students who did not enrol. Finally, the statistically significant correlation was obtained between Geography State Graduation exam grade and average grade of six obligatory Geography faculty courses (Climatology, Cartography, Ocean Geography, Hydrogeography, Geomorphology, Population Geography). The results of this study contribute to the methodology development aimed to research specific elements of Geography curricula of secondary and high education, and also to methodology and epistemology development of Teaching Methodology of Geography, the discipline within the applied science in the field of Geography.
Key words: Geography State Graduation exam, bachelor study of Geography, integrated master study of Geography and History, faculty achievement, Teaching Methodology of Geography.