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Academic Readiness of Mature-Age Students

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Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL 2016)

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Academic readiness represents a certain level of behavior patterns every student needs to master in order to succeed in a credit-bearing education cycle of a postsecondary institution. To improve academic readiness of the first-year students should be one of the most important tasks for university teachers in preparatory phase of study cycle. Our survey brings the interview data on opinions of university staff and mature-age graduates from the bachelor program Specialization in Pedagogy suggesting some improvements on the topic.

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This paper was supported by the Fund of educational policy of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic: “Readiness of technically educated students for the teacher profession, management and motivation”.

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  1. Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Dana Dobrovska

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  1. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria

    Michael E. Auer

  2. International E-Learning Association and Kaleidoscope Learning, New York, New York, USA

    David Guralnick

  3. Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland

    James Uhomoibhi

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Dobrovska, D. (2017). Academic Readiness of Mature-Age Students. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50337-0_26

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