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Different perspectives when working with a printed textbook and an I-textbook in selected chapters of mathematics in tertiary education
VOCETKOVÁ, Klára
The Czech education market at the primary and secondary level offers a wide variety of printed textbooks, which are more and more accompanied by I-textbooks and also by hybrid textbooks. Elementary school pupils and their counterparts in secondary schools may practice their mathematical skills using various mathematical exercises, which help them achieve a solid foundation necessary for successfully completing university mathematics courses. The teaching materials for the university level are not issued widely, as it is for elementary and secondary schools, universities usually use their materials, and the university teachers recommend them to their students. Some of the teachers present to their students printed practice books, and others use digital teaching portals available online. Seldomly the teachers provide the teaching materials to their students according to their individual learning styles. This approach is a core issue of the presented research. The thesis consists of two parts: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part presents the theoretical background of the research, including the definition and classification of textbooks and the functional structure textbook analysis and categorization of the mathematical text. A particular chapter is devoted to the university education level, specifics of the mathematical text, and the didactical principles in the context of textbook selection. The empirical part presents the conducted research methodology following the results of previous pieces of research in variable conditions. The main objective of the work is to identify the different viewpoints on the work with a printed university mathematics textbook and an I-textbook. The main viewpoints are the number of used hints necessary for solving mathematical problems, the students' error rate, and the time the students need to solve these problems. Other research questions deal with the selection preferences of the students regarding the media and the utility of interactive elements in new media. The research respondents are first-year university students participating in the introductory course of engineering Mathematics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice who were given several sets of mathematical problems to solve and to help them to acquire the given subject matter. These problems were selected based on a specification table to meet the necessary validity, reliability, practicability, and sensitivity so that the posed research questions and formulated hypotheses could be processed quantitatively and verified.
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