e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(4):80-93 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.055

Sitting an Exam from the Students' Point of View

Jana Matošková
Ing. Jana Matošková, Ph.D., Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, Mostní 5139, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic, tel. +420 576 032 272, E-mail: matoskova@fame.utb.cz

The study examined students' reports about their feelings related to exams, factors influencing exam passing and behaviour and mental strategies applied during exam sitting. It was based on an analysis of data gained by way of interviews and group discussions with students, a questionnaire survey among students and student seminar works. The study supports the idea that academic performance is influenced by external context as well as internal factors like intelligence, personality, and study motivation. The study indicates that students prefer neither a surface approach to studying nor cheating, but there are exceptions in which they find such behaviour appropriate. Further, if students have lack of knowledge, they often rely in such cases on an examiner's exhaustion, lack of attention or indulgence.

Keywords: university student; behaviour strategy; exam; cheating; academic performance

Published: December 1, 2017  Show citation

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Matošková, J. (2017). Sitting an Exam from the Students' Point of View. e-Pedagogium, 17(4), 80-93. doi: 10.5507/epd.2017.055
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