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RESEARCH ON THE PREPAREDNESS OF STUDENTS OF SECONDARY TRADE; COMMERCIAL AND ADMINISTRATION SCHOOLS FOR FUTHER EDUCATION AT RELATED UNIVERSITIES
Josip Miletić
; Odsjek za hrvatski jezik i književnost Odjela za kroatistiku i slavistiku Sveučilišta u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to determine whether students attending four-year vocational schools of trade economics and business administration are better prepared for admission to related universities, which is a further step in their educational vertical, than students of other vocational schools including grammar school students, who are taught different programmes of the Croatian language. The author conducted research among the pupils of the fourth grades of commercial and administrative schools in the form of a test which included testing
the knowledge of the Croatian language and literature and which was in fact an entrance examination for the faculty of economics and law. The intention was to explore the suitability of the teaching materials and teaching of Croatian in general in these schools for further education at related universities. Control groups were predicted for comparison. The research tried to establish the level of preparedness of the students for the enrolment in related universities. On average, the highest score was achieved by grammar school students. The author thinks this was expected taking into account the curriculum of the Croatian language taught in grammar schools, especially the number of teaching hours. The
author therefore concludes that teaching of Croatian in grammar schools provides a better basis for the preparation for further education at the faculty of economics and law than that in four-year vocational schools, where the emphasis is placed on the programmes covering the filds of economics, trade and business administration. This should be taken into consideration when creating the educational vertical. When analysing the results of the control group of technical school students it can be concluded that neither in relation to the other vocational schools do the
students educated in the areas of economy, trade and business administration have a great advantage at university enrolment.
The author especially points out the negative results obtained when exploring the knowledge of the Croatian language and literature in the above-mentioned classes. In both control classes the distribution of solved tasks of the Croatianlanguage and literature was almost equal, about 50%, while in the classes educating experts in economy, trade and business administration the most solved tasks were from literature, which is not good, given the exceptional communication skills they need for their job, which points to the neglect of language competence in teaching.
Ključne riječi
Croatian language curriculum; trade; economy and administrative schools; educational vertical; universities of economics and law
Hrčak ID:
136863
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Datum izdavanja:
3.2.2015.
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