Informatikos bakalauro studijų VPU tyrimas išlikimo teorijos metodais
Research Into Bachelor’s Degree Studies of Informatics at VPU Using Survival Analysis Methods

Summary/Abstract: An increasing number of students who interrupt their university studies stimulate us to search for the reasons of such dynamics. This work analyzes Informatics evening study program students at Vilnius Pedagogical University who started their studies in 2002–2003. This research aimed at disclosing the decisive factors of regularity and risks of Bachelor degree students of Informatics life at the university. Life tables were drawn to find out life duration and the riskiest periods of time, while dividing the students into groups according to their sex and entrance grades. Life function evaluations obtained by Kaplan-Meier method and Wilcoxson (Gehan) comparison tests of life functions revealed that statistically meaningful differences within the groups cannot be observed. Thus, both women and men have equal possibilities to survive. The possibilities to survive are also equal in the groups made according to entrance grades. The biggest risk to drop out is at the end of semesters 1, 2 and 4. With the help of Cox’s regression, we tried to disclose the factors deciding life during those particular periods of time. It was revealed that the most distinct factors deciding life are the final assessments of Mathematical Analysis (semesters 1 and 2) and the Theory of Probabilities and Statistics (semester 4).

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