Methods used for determining of economical efficiency of sel
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Methods used for determining of economical efficiency of selected activities for high school students
Karel Kolář, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, The Czech Republic
= heart of the Czech Republic
Prague (Praha)
Main points of this presentation
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Measurements of economic efficiency
The Czech Republic
karel@fykos.cz
= heart of Europe
= producer of the only true beer
a bit following our thoughts
What, actually, (can we) measure?
- Very quickly - City/University/Country/Me
- Brief introduction of measured activities
- How we tried to determine economic efficiency of informal education organized by our faculty
- Possible future extensions/improvements
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"unif" statistics
Possible improvements/extensions
Number of participants!
Charles University
Every activity gets for one participant 1/N points, where N is sum of every participation in every activity for each year
- Eldest in Central Europe
- Established in 1348
Registered participants?
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Participants who gained at least 1 pt?
e.g. for participant of 2 years FYKOS and 1 LMFS -> FYKOS receives 2/3 pt., LMFS 1/3
Karel Kolář (Me)
- Ph.D. student
- Formerly employee of the PR office
- 8 year organizer one of the activities
#1 - Number of participants
in 2015
+
- No need for precise data (names)
- Quick statistics
-
"aunif" statistics
- Depends on definition of participant
- No info about participants attending more activities
- No info about "flow" of participants
- (Points cannot be used by camps)
- No economy yet - but we can always divide budgets of activities by those numbers and I cannot present budgets
- Measure everything important regularly
- Introduce more variables?
- Use statistics as key for one part of budget allocation
- But announce it ahead
- Higher quality data (problems with many databases)
Every activity gets for one GRADUATE of Bc. at Faculty 1/N points, where N is sum of every participation in every activity for each year
Introductory info about measured activities
Challenges
How to grasp the participants participating in more activities?
MKS
FYKOS
M&M
+ more
KSP
And what about those who participate for more years?
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
"John Smith" in FYKOS
no such person
50 pts
42 pts
too old
e.g. for participant of 2 years FYKOS and 1 LMFS and is graduate -> FYKOS receives 2/3 pt., LMFS 1/3
e.g. non-graduate of faculty -> 0 for every activity
And combination of them...
even 1 participant is becoming complicated...
And did they really started study afterwards?
we have to wait for several years...
in 2015
"eunif" statistics
Every activity gets for one participant 1/N points, where N is sum of every participation in every activity ONLY IN THE FIRST YEAR
e.g. for participant of FYKOS in the first year and everything the second year -> only FYKOS gets 1 pt, the others nothing
covariance
in 2015
The probability of participation in activity in the column if someone participates in the activity in the row – the higher prob. the darker cell
- Financed by the Faculty, organized by university students (ISCED 6, 7, 8) for students of high schools or lower secondary schools (ISCED 3 & 2).
- Main goals
- Popularization of Science (math, physics, informatics)
- Propagation of Faculty (decreasing number of students)
- Preparation for university study
- More kinds of activities - we focus on those we can measure (we have names and other data)
- Correspondence competitions
- Camps
in 2015
Correspondence competitions
Acknowledgments
Parallel possible variables
Summary
- Competition throughout school year
- 4 ~ 8 series with 4 ~ 9 problems, ~ month for solving, possible usage of any sources
- Usually a week-long camp twice a year for the best participants
- It is cheaper or even for free
List of Correspondence competitions of the Faculty
- Some of them run for more than 30 years
Corrected solutions
- FYKOS – physics, upper secondary students
- http://fykos.org
- MKS – mathematics, upper secondary students
- http://mks.mff.cuni.cz
- KSP – informatics, upper secondary students
- 2 categories (main & beginners)
- http://ksp.mff.cuni.cz
- M&M – math, physics and informatics, upper secondary students
- http://mam.mff.cuni.cz
- Pikomat – mathematics, lower secondary students
- http://pikomat.mff.cuni.cz
- Výfuk - physics, lower secondary students
- http://vyfuk.mff.cuni.cz
(standalone camps)
Camps
- It is important trying to measure statistics of organized activities
- It can bring new insights
- You can build motivation system on it
- It can be good (self)reflection
- But not everything can be measured
- Usually 2 weeks
- Participants pay for food and accommodation
- Faculty pays for organizers
- Rich program
- Lectures
- Experiments
- Games (inform. ed.)
- ...
- LŠMF, ZŠMF, LMFS, LSMF
- upp. secondary stud.
- The presentation was supported by the Charles University, project GA UK No 188515.
- The correspondence competitions and camps mentioned in the text are funded by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University.
- I would especially like to thank to Martin Mareš, one of the organizers of the competitions, who oversaw all the database and creation of all statistics.
- Also, I must thank to all organizers who contributed with their data and made creation of those statistics possible.
- Number of corrected participants' solutions
- Sum of points gained by participants
- Share of girls among participants
- Number of series, author solutions...
- ...
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