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Akademická úspěšnost vysokoškolských studentů
Academic achievement among university students

Author(s): Eva Sedláková
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education , Sociology of Education
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: academic achievement; student; university; men; women
Summary/Abstract: Academic achievement is one of the most widely used terms in foreign research in university education and its indicators are most often considered grades and average. This contribution focuses on the study of the difference in academic achievement of university students in the context of gender. Differences between men and women have been addressed in a number of studies and will certainly bring many interesting results in relation to academic achievement, especially because academic achievement is a relatively new concept in the Czech research. Students participated in the research was 422. The results show that the academic achievement of women and men differs in the scale of social adaptation.