Work in Progress - Computer Software for Predicting Steadiness of the Students

Abstract

The paper presents a study which identifies a series of factors influencing students' steadiness in their option for engineering training and the final aim is to elaborate an IT system for monitoring the quality of educational offer. This aim is reached through a research developed in three stages. Only the first and the second stages were described here. The last one is in work. So, the first stage is materialized in elaborating and validating a questionnaire structured on three dimensions: finding the expectations, diagnosis of initial motivation for initiating students in engineering, specifying identity information and elements of personal history from educational student's experience. The sample is randomly chosen and the students from the research group belong to Technical University "Gh. Asachi" Iassy, Romania, attending first, second and third year of study. The second stage of the scientific research establishes the relations between the identified expectations, initial motivation of students for engineering training and personal history in educational area on the one hand and students' educational performance on the other hand. Afterwards, the results of the first two stages represents the starting point for planning computer software to predict the steadiness of students in their professional choice